Despite being a friend, and his embrace warm, his touch somehow felt wrong. Like, I shouldn't be allowing him to touch me like this. But I needed to feel something... anything other than the pain I was feeling from Gavin.

"Come on," he said softly, lifting me off the ground and carrying me bridal style. My lips trembled as I suppressed more sobs, but I couldn't hold them in.

He brought me over to his waiting car and helped me into the passenger seat. He buckled my seatbelt because I was too out of it to do it myself. He ran around the car and got into the driver's seat. For a moment, I thought I heard my name coming from Lucy's lips, but it was gone as Spencer sped away from the packhouse.

He was quiet as he drove through the streets; his hands clutching the steering wheel tightly, as if it owed him money, and his jaw tensing periodically.

I glanced up at him with a frown, not sure what to say. I was grateful for my friend at that moment for getting me away from the packhouse, but now that I was getting further away, I had questions in my mind... like why?

Most of the gammas were on post with this new threat out there, so why was Spencer at the packhouse to begin with?

"Thanks," I tell him, breaking the silence after a long while.

"Don't mention it," he said, his eyes remaining fixed on the road.

didn't have to

eerie feeling in the pit of my stomach. It was a feeling I never got from being around him before, and I wasn't sure where it

what I just dealt with, the heartbreak, and the

my condo, my frown only deepened as I looked at him. I assumed he was

taking me?" I asked him, my tone coming out rougher

was plenty safe with the amount of security there was around here this last day or so. I

rather just go home," I

we get to our destination, we can talk about it.

bit my lower tip, nibbling on it as I stared up at him. He was so serious; it was something I wasn't used to when it came to Spencer. At this point, wished I had my phone with me and almost cursed myself for having it shut off and on

my heart

where we are going," I told him,

heard it, too, because he frowned

"Are you afraid?"

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