The campus was quiet that night, the kind of silence that made her every step sound louder than it should. Courtney hugged her sweater tighter around her body, as though it could shield her from the storm rolling inside her chest.

She shouldn’t have been walking this way. She knew it. Every rational part of her screamed to turn around, to go back to her dorm and bury herself under blankets until this heat in her body faded. But she didn’t turn around.

She couldn’t.

The glow from Hunter ...