Chapter 40

• Trendan stopped at the corner and looked at the building. He hadn’t slept much at all because he couldn’t stop thinking about having breakfast with Jerika this morning. Now that he was here, he was overwhelmed with a case of bad nerves. He had never been this way before, not in all his years of life. He’d been on dates before—if being set up by your mother was considered a date. He wasn’t a virgin by any means, but right now, he felt like one.
• Blowing out a breath, he pulled his shoulders back and forced his feet to move. A few feet later, he stopped and removed his link bracelet so no one could yank him back to Solrelm without notice. Ulric knew where he was, and that was good enough. If anyone needed him, they could do it the normal way and phone him. He frowned at the pavement and then pulled out his phone and set it to vibrate only. Bastain had the worst timing of anyone he knew, and if anyone were going to harass him, it would be his little brother.
• It felt like it took him forever to cross a hundred feet to the building the Geminis were in, but at the same time, he reached it too quickly.