Gabriel waited as the whisper of night settled over the house. He was certain everyone was in the house now. Even though no one else had entered the room after Jocelyn left with his half-eaten bowl of soup. Not the boys, the sisters, and certainly not Jocelyn. Which led Gabriel to believe that he had truly said something to upset her.
That wasn’t great, considering she seemed to be the only person standing between him and certain death.
He had spent the last hours of the day watching as the natural light outside the bedroom window had dimmed until the ethereal glow of moonlight took over.
Outside his room, the world had settled into a gentle symphony of sounds. The giggles of two little boys echoed through the walls. Their laughter tugged at his chest and pulled a smile out of him despi
