AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I shook my head. “No. His sister, Cora, helped me. We found this place and I fell in love with it.
She and my dad helped me co-sign.”
I had a feeling that would’ve been his next question—how I could afford a three-bedroom house
in this particular neighborhood.
Everyone always asked.
It was one of the more influential ones in Kilgore, and definitely one that people sought out when
they were looking for a safe, family-friendly neighborhood.
“Parents are nice like that, I guess.” He paused. “At least your dad and Luca’s are. I haven’t
spoken to my supposed parents since I got back.”
I hated that for him.
Even more, I hated that they didn’t care that he’d made it out alive while Gabe and Ember
would’ve been ecstatic and over the moon just to get one more day with their son.
It sucked when selfish people were given children they weren’t appreciative of.
“Let’s go,” he suggested, changing the subject.
I allowed the subject change, sensing that he didn’t want to talk about it.
I wouldn’t, either.
Not if I had parents like his that couldn’t care less if he was alive or not.
I mean, what kinds of parents didn’t check on their children?
He was missing for a year and a half!
Upon hearing that he was alive, I would’ve been on the first plane to Germany.
Following that, I would’ve been at his side the moment that he got home. I also wouldn’t have
wasted the last few months that he’d been home. I’d be trying to help him remember me.
Hell, he had more memories of Gabe and Ember now than he did of his own parents!
When I stepped off the curb behind him, he grabbed my hand and tugged me backward and to the
left.
That was when I saw the police officers barreling around the corner of the fire truck.
“Sorry,” one officer rumbled. “Oh, hey, Riel.”
I smiled, loving that they were now calling him by his nickname and not his first name.
“Officer Taggart,” he said. “Could you tell me what’s going on?”
“Some high school kid got himself shot today,” Officer Taggart answered. “He’s going to be all
