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The entire day had been filled with confusion, threats, and runarounds.
I woke up with it still feeling ravaged, but my house no longer empty.
I’d been racking my brain the night before, trying to figure out just how in the hell I was going to be able to hack staying in town. The vacation house, I’d found out, was rented out for the next week, so I couldn’t even pay to stay there. In fact, everywhere that I’d called the night before had no
vacancies.
Damn the summer’s popularity.
I’d never once thought to call my father—or even Luca’s parents, though.
My mind had just been in a whirlwind of chaos as I tried to process everything that had gone on.
The voice, though?
They were much different from the ones I’d woken up to yesterday morning.
Heart in my throat, I threw on some shorts and hurried into the other room.
The first person that I saw when I made my way out to the kitchen was my dad.
The second was Gabe.
I wiped my eyes as I stared at all of them staring at me.
Surprisingly, it was Ember that came up to me and pulled me into a hug.
“It’s okay, baby,” Ember said, pulling me in so tight that I couldn’t help but burst into tears.
“I’m sorry,” I cried.
Ember was pressing her face to mine and saying, “It’s okay. It’s okay.” Over and over again.
I sniffled and pulled back.
“I didn’t… I didn’t even think to call you yesterday,” I whispered. “And I’m sorry for not telling
you…”
She was shaking her head as she wiped away my tears.
“Let’s not worry about that now,” she said. “We’ll have plenty of time to talk about it later.”
We would.
Hopefully.
I licked my lips and looked at Gabe.
He didn’t look upset with me either.
Even though they had every right to be.
“We already have Janie, Jack, and Winter working on this,” Gabe said from his spot at the table.
Papers were spread out in front of him as he absently tapped a pencil against the table, allowing his finger to run over the mouse pad of the computer. “Janie got back to me a few minutes ago with a
basic background check on the two men. Tober—Toby—Cromwell, your teacher, has been lying to
