Kael
The second the library doors shut behind everyone else, silence crashed into the room hard enough to make my skull ache.
I didn’t look at Drake immediately.
Mostly because I already knew exactly what expression I was going to find on his face.
Confused.
Curious.
Maybe hurt.
Instead, I focused on gathering the scattered books from the table that nobody had actually bothered putting away during the apocalypse prophecy crisis.
“Okay,” Drake said carefully behind me. “So…”
I grabbed another book unnecessarily fast.
“So?”
“So little man said you have a boyfriend.”
I closed my eyes briefly.
Of course Noah would phrase it like that.
Present tense.
Not had.
Had would have at least been emotionally survivable.
“You have a boyfriend you failed to mention?” Drake asked, softer t
