Chapter 544

• So she simply bought some groceries and headed home to cook. Zayla Steele’s rental was nearby, so she brought Felix Brooks along. She was fine, but Felix was a bundle of nerves—face flushed, heart pounding—thinking it was his first time going to the home of someone he liked and he hadn’t prepared a thing.
• Not quite. He had prepared one thing. He’d left it in the car, planning to give it to her in a couple of days.
• “I forgot something in the car. I need to go grab it.”