into my voice. “You remember your Aunt Pat?”
He gave a small shrug, noncommittal, but his eyes—too big in his thin face, too watchful for a child—tracked my movements like he was calculating whether I was a threat.
My heart sank.
“Jess,” I said quietly, standing back up. “What’s really going on?”
“Nothing.” Her fingers tightened around Tyler’s hand until continue reading …