Chapter 24
Navine
My heart jumped into my throat the second I heard Nathaniel's voice through the door.
I hadn't even fully stepped into the room yet — my jacket still half on, one arm through the sleeve and the other hanging loose, the cold air from outside still clinging to me like a second skin. The motorcycle ride had been long, brutal, the kind of punishing speed that usually cleared my head. But not today. Today, every mile had just twisted the knot in my chest tighter.
And now, walking into the house, I heard it.
"What did you do all through the night you spent at the club?"
The question echoed in my head, bouncing around my skull like a bullet ricocheting. She was f*****g me, dammit!
Suddenly the space felt suffocating, like I'd walked straight into a trap I hadn't kn
