"He was gone for three days this time."
Three days of Silver checking her phone every five minutes. Three days of Americus running tracking programs that came up empty. Three days of Liam saying he hadn't heard anything either.
Three days of wondering if Eli had finally decided she was too much trouble.
It was Wednesday afternoon when he showed up. Silver was in the library, pretending to study, actually just staring at her textbook without reading a single word.
Her phone buzzed. Eli: I'm outside your dorm. Can we talk?
Silver's heart stopped. Then raced. She grabbed her stuff, shoved it in her bag, and practically ran out of the library.
The walk to her dorm felt like it took forever. She kept checking her phone to make sure the text was real. That he was actually there.
He was. Standing outside the entrance, hands in his pockets, looking exhausted. He had bags under his eyes. Stubble on his jaw. That same worn-down expression from when he'd come back from Boston.
