CHAPTER 3
“Come on Manny, where are you?” Avery said as he paced back and forth in the shadows behind the diner. It had been almost forty-five minutes since he texted his best friend and he should have been here by now. Maybe Morgan and Angelo had caught him trying to sneak out, and he was
either sitting through a lecture or grounded to his room. “s**t, I can’t wait anymore. I gotta get out of here.”
A shuffling noise came from the far corner and Avery looked there to see what made the noise.
A long shadow of a man shone on the dark pavement as someone approached the edge. Avery
held his breath hoping it was Manny, but the shadow looked too damn big for it to be his friend.
A dark figure wearing a heavy black coat stepped around the corner and turned toward him.
Avery took a step ba
