Chapter Thirty-six

    Dinner was awkward at first, sitting side by side with Dylan that even a tiny bit of contact would make her almost jump out of her skin. Ella was almost certain that he was doing it on purpose. The next time their bodies touched Ella pinched him so hard he hissed.

            ''Is something wrong?” Her mother asked.

           Dylan cleared his throat. “Nothing." He said then he grabbed his glass of water and gulped it down in one go. When he was done he slammed the empty glass on the wooden while he glared at her but Ella put her hand against her mouth to smoulder her laughter. And that was how slowly and surely the tension evaporated and her nerves were no longer screaming but Adele Garcia would hear from he