~Declan~

The car engine purred as I started the car. “Where to?”

Serena doesn’t even bother buckling her seatbelt. “The convenience store,” she groaned out those words, as if I should understand where that was. Then it hit me. She wanted to go back to where I picked her up.

“The convenience store? Why?” I probed.

She blew out a hiss. “I need to check something.” I opened my mouth to fire up another question, but she silenced me with a sharp glare. “No more questions. Just ...