Elena's POV

“Do you think this is okay?” My grip tightened around the steering wheel as I threw a brief glance in Gael's direction.

“It’s okay; there’s nothing to fear,” he assured me, but the anxiety swirling inside me was persistent, threatening to take control.

No matter how much I tried to convince myself it was fine, I felt it wasn’t. How could I think of endangering the ones I had sworn to protect? How could I risk the lives of the people I had been hiding from all these ...