Chapter 14
Shane exhaled slowly, and put down the bowl.
For a moment, there was nothing but silence in the small kitchen. Shane could feel his heartbeat in his ears, and a hot anger in his veins as he added just one more thing to the list that had been crushing him lately.
What was one more plan made without him?
“Shane?”
He shook his head silently.
“I wanted to tell you sooner,” Chloe said hesitantly, her voice echoing and thin in the deathly quiet kitchen, “but when you were so upset at the news, Steve and I figured…”
“Yeah,” Shane interrupted sharply. “You and Dad figured.”
She paused. Shane braced his arms on the counter and pushed out until his elbows straightened and his triceps strained. He dropped his head and glowered at the tiles. Great. Just. f*****g. Great.
“Shane…”
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