Chapter 149

#16

Elias’s POV

Eli drives the way he thinks, which is fast and without wasted movement.

He texted Marcus, arranged the afternoon off, and drove across the city in the grey morning light with the conversation he was about to have already assembled in his head.

He parks outside his mother’s building and sits in the car for exactly four seconds before he gets out.

He takes the stairs. The lift is too slow and he needs the climb right now, needs something to do with the energy that is moving through him because if he arrives at that door without burning any of it off, he is going to end up in a prison cell.

He already knows Carver is here. He knew it before he started the drive because Carver has been treating his mother’s kitchen like an annex of his own