Chapter 33

• Meilei kept tapping her leg in agitation, checking her watch, and trying like crazy to turn her cell on. The car was stuffy, especially because she was sitting back here beside Kai, but it was her anxiety that was strangling her breath. She had no idea why he insisted on driving her home… it was not the usual parting of the last couple of weeks.
• “You can let me off here; it’s not far, and I can walk.” She leaned to the driver in the front, hoping to escape because there was no way in hell she wanted him anywhere near her apartment complex. All it would take was Yue in the kiddy park out front with Ling or Suying; she couldn’t handle that. If Yue saw her, she would call for her. If he saw Yue, it would be game over.
• “Keep driving.” Kai didn’t lift his eyes from his cell, typing a text response to someone, curt in his order and seemingly uninterested in her presence. His manner was still the same cold jerk he had been all day. Worse since the mall. Meilei’s insides twisted even tighter. She could not call or text Ling or Suying to keep Yue inside and didn’t even know if they were home yet. This was so bad.