Chapter Sixteen
Seth
After twenty years of absence from this home, I pull my car up along the curb of the Ericksons’ house. It’s only three blocks from where I grew up, but after I turned nine, it might as well have been a thousand miles. The easiest way to get to the grocery store means going past their house, but my mom quickly learned to go a few blocks out of the way to keep everyone’s mood as chipper as she could.
Knox pulls up behind me in his cop car.
Can you blame me? Of course I called my cop roommate to be my protector in case Evan’s dad pulls a gun on me.
I walk up to his driver’s side door and Knox rolls down the window. His partner, Lucas, sits at his side.
Knox smirks. “You have us until we get a call.”
“Do you really think he’s going to go after you?” Lucas asks.
My
