Chapter 129

“Nathan, should we check around the block again?” Jim asked, trying to be helpful and supportive, but they had checked around the block three times now.

Nathan stared at their borrowed vehicle in the lot as if what was broken had anything to do with a car. Nathan was what was broken. He didn’t have the strength for this. Not again. “I let this happen. I let him go alone.”

“Nate, come on,” Jim said. “It’s not that simple. We just need to think this through. What did he say when he left, again?”

Nathan closed his eyes, feeling wet flakes catch in his eyelashes. “Nothing. He was just going for a walk.”

“But maybe he gave some clue about where he was heading? Anything we can use. Just go over what happened again.”

“I told you already.”

“We need more details than that, Nathan.”