After eating the rest of breakfast in silence, Nick stepped out to make a phone call. He was probably checking up on Tyler to see if he completed the job or not. My heart thumped inside my chest at the realization that something might have happened to Joel until I realized that I didn’t get any weird feelings. I mean, I’m no expert or anything, but didn’t most people get some kind of gut feeling when something was wrong with someone they cared about?
When Nick walked back in, he didn’t seem to be thrilled with how his conversation went. Hopefully, that meant that, for whatever reason, Tyler didn’t go through with the job. Either that or Joel found a way out of it.
“So,” Nick said, startling me as he came up from behind me, placing his chin on my should
