Chapter 253: Stopping the Competition

Ellis POV

Up with the sun, the rooster crowed in my ears. More specifically my headphones, the alarm going off with my selected ringtone.

Moving by both chance and fate, Livy and I turned off our phones and rolled out of bed like we’d rehearsed the whole thing.

“Oh, you’re up,” we said in unison.

We made our way downstairs together and opened the front door.

“Great,” Luke said, ...