Two Black SUVs Rolled Into My Aunt’s Backyard

this time. “I’m sorry, what corridor?”

Pierce kept talking to me. “Your phone was off grid.”

“It was in the kitchen. Family thing.”

“We know.”

That stung a little because of course they knew.

Ethan had drifted behind me without my noticing. I felt his hand catch the fabric of my shirt for a second.

I looked back at him. “Go stand with your mom.”

He did. Fast.continue reading …