Chapter 78

Eva

I handed the phone to Nox and he broke it in half. It was a flip phone. I didn’t even know how he had one of those. They were so ancient.

“Everything okay?” he asked me.

I nodded even though I wasn’t sure if I meant it. Was I okay? When I spoke to Cyrus and heard how happy and desperate he sounded, I felt like a terrible person. I’d let this go on for so long, and now I’d broken his heart in the worst way possible. I could’ve said more to him, but Nox warned me that the longer the call was, the easier it could be traced. So, I had to keep our conversation short.

He was probably confused, but I hoped he would get the message.

And anyway, I felt better now that I’d told him it was all over between us.

“Let’s go, then.”

We were standing on top of a building on the other side of town. He left the broken phone right where we stood, and together, we went down. Vic was in the car waiting for us, and he drove as soon as we got in.

Nox kept holding my hand.

Nothing was said in the c