Chapter 20: Trapped

Joshua’s POV

My tongue tingled with pleasure as the hot black coffee filled my mouth. After the morning I had, it was very needed. First, Mr. Perez’s store was the site of a traffic collision right around the corner from my apartment. When I drove past, I couldn’t just leave him there to handle the whole situation himself. Despite knowing that I was going to be late, I stopped and helped the cyclist that crashed into the fruit stand after being nudged by a car.

Once I got back on the road, my pocket vibrated constantly but I was too busy avoiding other cars on the road to check it. By the way that my phone vibrated constantly, I knew that it had to be Olivia. True enough, once I parked my bike outside the quaint café, I checked my phone to see numerous missed calls and a thread of unread texts. Each message Olivia sent me channeled her anxiousness and frustration at