The next few hours pass by slowly. When Kinsley sends me a message letting me know Sophie is coming over, Tanner brings up the cameras he informed me he hid in her apartment to make sure she isn’t bluffing.

I was a little taken back when he told me he placed a camera in her bedroom, but I can’t say I was surprised. He did break into her house, offering sex and coffee, before things got serious between them. Knowing both of us are heading out tonight, we need to know Kins isn’t alone. The moment Sophie’s car pulls up, Tanner’s shoulders drop and he visibly relaxes, pocketing his phone and turning to look at me.

It’s go time.

The air between us is thick with tension as the GPS lights up with directions, the location is only forty-five minutes away. I can see Tanner out of the corner of my eye, he looks uncomfortable. I’m sure he is normally the one driving; he is probably the one in control of everything, 99% of the time. That makes me smile. Poor Tanner.

“Something funny, Jesse?” he questions.

“A little,” I say with a shrug. “I was just thinking how it must be hard for you to be sitting there in the passenger seat. You seem like the type to always be in control … That’s all.”

He doesn’t respond, instead he turns and looks out the window until his phone buzzes with an incoming text.

Glancing over as I drive, I see him reading over the message. “Everything okay?”

If looks could kill, I would be dead right now. I know it without even giving him eye contact. How does one man have such an evil stare? Whoever sent the message must have really ruffled his feathers.

Tanner’s fingers float across the screen before he tosses his phone back down.

“It was Soph,” he says on an exhale. “She said, and I quote ‘I hope you know what you’re doing’ with an evil eye emoji … Do you think she’s onto me?”

“Most likely, but she’ll keep that to herself even if she is. She might be a little over the top, but she’s not stupid,” I say, my eyes glued on the road. “Kinsley isn’t dumb either, if she wasn’t thinking with her heart right now, she would know exactly what was playing out. She’s just hurting.” Tanner shifts uncomfortably in his seat, but I keep my focus on the road ahead of us.