CHAPTER 105
ALEX’S POV
The road kept on stretching endlessly before me, dark and empty, lit only by the streetlights flickering past in sickening intervals. My headlights were broken from the car I'd slammed in back at the lot. Another expense I had to fix with money I wasn't sure I could replace.
Fuck.
My hands were locked tight around the wheel, knuckles reddened and my jaw clenched so hard it ached. Every muscle in my body felt wound too tight, like one wrong move would just snap me in half.
God, I knew I shouldn't be driving–the double lane blurring before me was enough reason for me not to.
But knowing didn't stop me.
The car hummed softly beneath me as I turned into the familiar street, my chest tightening as I got closer to my destination. I could see its brick chimney r
