The Phone Call At The Gate

Chapter 222: The Phone Call at the Gate SEDONA My first instinct was to sink lower in the seat and chance a look around but the second won. I was done making myself smaller. I stayed exactly where I was, done shrinking, done taking up less space than I occupied. He couldn't see through the tinted window. He didn't know it was me. He was a child who had seen a car and something in him had registered something. He reached into his bag. Pulled out a tablet. Small, school-issued, the kind with a restricted calling function for approved contacts. My phone rang. Nick. The car went completely silent. Eight people who understood simultaneously what was happening and had collectively decided that nothing in the world was going to move until it had. I picked up my and fiddled with just for ki