Chapter 2Sultry nights like this, Seb missed Montana winters, words he never would’ve dreamed of owning before setting out with Bertie and the gang. For all its lack of walls, he’d never felt so caged as he had growing up, with roads that went to nowhere, a void yearning for someone to come along and fill it up. Leaving had been a blessing.
But that had been almost ten years ago, and he’d seen more of the country and the people who called it home than he’d ever imagined. Faces blurred into a wash of nobodies, each town exactly like the last, poor, desperate, screaming for the distraction he and his adopted family provided. When he stood up in front of them now, he didn’t wonder what secrets they had locked away or which ones he might be able to seduce. He saw the stretched seams and the d
