Chapter 179

#46

Elias rests his forehead against the steering wheel, his knuckles still aching from pounding Jason’s jaw. His thoughts are caught in a vicious loop of everything that’s happened in the last twenty-four hours.

He shouldn’t have come here today.

If he had stayed home like he planned, they wouldn’t have had that dumb fight and Chloe wouldn’t have found out the way she did. Now Lucia’s best friends hate her, the entire school knows who her father is, and it’s all his fault.

Eli runs a frustrated hand over his face and checks his phone for the fourth time in the last five minutes his irritation continuing to mount as the time shows 4:53pm.

It’s been over fifteen minutes since he sent Tyler out to fetch Lucas and Lucia. He knows Lucia is mad at him, and he fully expected her to drag her feet just to make him suffer, but this level of delay is pushing past the boundaries of her usual stubbornness.

Elias shifts the vehicle into park, his fingers gripping t