Chapter 130

Johnny refused to leave us there unprotected while he went and got the limo, so we took a cab back to the parking lot.

“You’re kind of the third wheel here, man,” Connor joked as we all sat scrunched in the back of the taxi.

“After what you put me through today, you and I are not talking,” Johnny said. I thought he was seriously angry, but then I caught his eye, and he gave me a wink and a quick smile before turning his face to stone again.

We got in the limo and started back towards Los Angeles. Now the feelings that I’d been trying to push away the entire day suddenly reared their ugly head in full force.

It was coming to an end.

I didn’t have him for much longer.

In fact, I would probably never see him again.

I snuggled in tight beside him, with his arm wrapped around me, and I tried to be happy, thinking about all the amazing things I’d done and felt in the last 48 hours…

…but all I could think of was how much I was going to be hurting very, very soon.

Connor noticed I was glum,