Chapter 56 Served

• Kayla
• The silence between Noah and me in the wake of Nicholas’s sudden exit felt heavy and awkward. I stared down at the peeling label of my beer bottle, unsure of what to say.
• The edges of the label were already frayed from where my nails had been picking at it earlier, and I didn’t even try to stop myself from tearing off another strip. My mind was elsewhere—it was in the direction Nicholas had gone, trailing after Rebecca like a moth to a flame.