When Chaz asked this, Selena clicked her tongue.

“Whose side are you on?”

“Yours.”

“Stop talking nonsense. Let’s go back to the bar. There’s no construction at night, so I can make do with sleeping anywhere.”

Selena glanced at the pitch-black night. There was not even a single star. It was empty and suffocating.

Chaz said, “I’ll be damned! How can you live in that place with no windows? Forget it. You can stay at my place. My boyfriend is away on a business trip, so he’s not at home.”

Sele