Chapter 9
The following Friday, I got in my car just after breakfast and drove north to Los Angeles. Sebastian had asked me to come for the weekend, and though I had made the argument about grading papers, Sebastian had suggested I just bring them with me. I could hardly argue with that. Especially since Sebastian was leaving that Monday for Brazil and I really wanted to see him again before he’d be gone a month.
Sebastian lived in the hills above Hollywood. Up a long, winding road with a gate about halfway. A guard listened to my name and waved me through. It was another half a mile before I reached his house. Scratch that…mansion.
It was all one story, but it was massive, stretched across the entire landscape and overlooking most of L.A. I realized as I got out of my car, it overlooke
