Chapter 4

He said nothing, and my phone buzzed right then.

[Your account has multiple complaint flags. Order access has been temporarily frozen.]

I was standing less than thirty feet from my own door, and I couldn't move.

Charles came up behind me with the umbrella, and his voice came down on me. "Do you see how things are now?"

I ran a high fever that night, and I woke up in a hospital bed with the smell of disinfectant heavy in the air.

Charles was sitting beside the bed, and my shoulders locked the second I saw him.

He reached over…