Chapter 104: Unwanted Advances

Night’s P.O.V   I sat on my bed, replayed everything that happened tonight; every tense word, every glance, every detail… I had seen it all over and over in my mind, and yet each time, one image stood out in sharp relief: my father’s face when he’d looked at Kai’s dad. That split second, when my father’s usual hardness had crumbled, and the color had drained from his face. It was so unlike him. Normally, my father would have been cursing me out, making his contempt crystal clear. But tonight, after that moment in the hallway, he’d been silent. I almost wished my father had shouted at me instead, berated me like he always did. At least that would have felt familiar, almost manageable. But this strange, haunted silence was unsettling, and only left me with more questions than I knew what to do with. I had a feeling that whatever it was, Kai’s dad was surely involved in this and knows something about all of this. Perhaps he could answer my nagging question of why my dad was the way that h