Seven
GRAY
Two nights later, I found myself standing next to Darius in a narrow ditch at the bottom of an icy hill, excitedly bouncing on my toes. He’d run me up and down the steep incline so many times, we’d melted a path through the thick layer of ice and snow clear down to the mud beneath.
And still, I wasn’t even winded. I had energy to burn, and after being on house-arrest for the last few days, I was more than ready to light it all up.
“I think we’ve established that I’m faster than you, D,” I teased. I’d beaten him nine out of the last ten runs, and the ones we’d done before that were all ties.
Doing his best to hide his frustration, Darius nodded toward the top of the rise, where Asher, Ronan, and Liam stood waiting for us. Liam was holding a stopwatch and clipboard while the
