Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Stay
I got out of the car and walked across the wet grass in my scrubs.
He didn't put the box down.
"Oregon," I said.
"They need medics." He shifted the box against his hip. "They called back Tuesday."
"Tuesday."
"I was going to tell you tonight. I wasn't going to just leave."
"You were carrying your last box out while I was at work."
He looked at the box.
"Laine, every time you look at me, you're going to see him."
"I'm looking at you right now."
"And what do you see?"
"A man holding a box in my yard at seven forty in the morning."
He almost smiled.
Then it went away.
"I'm his son," he said. "I've got his eyes. I've got his name."
"You're going to sit in a courtroom and hear what he did to your father, and I'll be next to you looking like him."
"I knew for a week and I didn't tell you. I let him into your room seven more nights."
"You get a clean life now. A house and a job and a mom who sleeps right. You don't need me in the pool house reminding you."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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