MEGHAN
Calm down, I thought, deeply breathing in to try calm down my racing heart. Calm down.
“You okay?” Liam asked. His hand was on mine as they both rested on my thigh, and he smoothly took a turn. I knew that road as if it was the palm of my hand: a couple more turns and we’d be right in front of the diner, where the kids, my Grandma, Roger and Liam’s parents were waiting for us.
I bit my lip, nodding weakly. “As okay as I can be,” I murmured. I’d been trapped in a silence ever since we’d left the Crescent Moon’s: I doubted that, even if I wanted to talk about what had happened, I’d have the strength to do so without bursting into sobs. I’d only cried the first thirty minutes in the car: Liam had parked in an empty spot beside the highway and comforted me – and we’d been off on th
