Chapter 4
Noah thought he’d be returning home for every summer break. He should have known better. The first one, at the end of his freshman year, he’d been sent out to Phoenix again to visit with Uncle Clay, and it had been so hot, he’d nearly melted.
The summer after his sophomore year he flew out to Hawaii to see Travis and his vampyre. She’d been kind of standoffish, while Trav, an EMT who worked the graveyard shift, tried to hook him up with the sisters of the men he worked with.
Noah cut his vacation short and told Pop if he wasn’t allowed to come home for the next summer break, he was not coming home again, period.
So the summer after Noah’s junior year, he did get to come home—and his mom dragged him off to a yoga class with her.
“You know my joints were getting so stiff,” she
