Chapter 83 3 No Going Back

• Jordan didn’t answer right away. He just stared at Alex’s lips again, the same way he had that night.
• The TV flickered in the background, casting shifting blue light across the living room. Alex could hear his own heartbeat thudding in his ears. The pizza they were supposed to eating just sat half-empty on the coffee table, the smell of grease and cheese still hanging in the air. Jordan’s knee pressed against his on the couch and neither of them moved it away.
• “Jordan,” Alex said, voice low and kind of rough. “We said we wouldn’t.”