TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)
His gaze returned to me, intense and unnervingly focused.
The silence stretched, thick and awkward. My phone, clutched in my hand, lit up with a notification. A text from Devin.
Don’t forget. Dinner with Bane tomorrow. 8 PM. Don’t be late.
I felt a wave of nausea. My eyes flicked back to the screen, the countdown clock in my head screaming.
“Trouble in paradise?”
His question startled me. I looked up to find him watching me, a faint, unreadable curiosity in his green eyes.