Chapter 21
SEVIN
Saturday night
Leaving the vet is harder than arriving there.
With Felix, Charlie and Emily in tow, I herd the crew into my local driver’s Navigator truck and from less than four feet away, I can feel Emily’s anger.
Felix was released into our care with instructions to keep a careful eye. But the veterinarian assistant was already long gone.
At the end of his shift, he’d taken the phone he used to record me, Charlie and Emily, disappearing into the Chicago night with me threatening to wring his neck.
The only person who stopped me from doing it?
Emily.
The look of disappointment in her hazel eyes was enough to keep me from committing murder. And less than a half an hour later, those eyes are still filled with irritation, a cold chill that I can feel from the front
