When class finally ended, Esther went straight to the parking lot where Gaara had told her to wait. She kept her promise, standing obediently beside his Range Rover. Her eyes drifted across the noisy campus around her, scanning for any sign of him. But Gaara was nowhere to be seen, so she kept glancing toward the same direction again and again.

While waiting, she checked the phone Gaara had returned to her.

She blinked when she realized the device in her hand wasn’t hers at all. It was ...