Chapter 52

“Stop the car.” Lana said suddenly, causing River to give her a curious sideways glance. She was staring down at her phone intensely, the light from the screen illuminating her distressed expression. “Stop the car!” she repeated with a panicked urgency in her voice.

River hit the brakes immediately which caused their bodies to jolt forward as the seatbelts they were wearing tugged against them with a sharp pain.

“What the hell?” River asked her, trying his hardest to not yell at her for suddenly yelling at him while he was driving.

After the fireworks show ended he promised to drive her straight home. Everything was perfectly normal, with Lana chattering on about school and their upcoming midterms until a buzz from her phone caught her attention. They were almost about to reach her house when she suddenly told him to stop.

“It’s Zane.” she announced.

He thought that it was an emergency or something happened to Ray. But it was just the nuisance named Zan