129 Chapter 129

"Hey, Cass," Aaron said, walking toward me as Cadence headed for the chair Mom had been sitting in earlier. "Cadence said you had some questions about what happened in Sierraville." He sat down on the sofa pretty close to me, and I wanted to scoot back, scoot away from him, but not only would that probably be rude, there was nowhere for me to go.

"Yeah," I said, looking anywhere but his eyes. "I just wanted to know what happened to Elliott."

"I think that's a valid question, and you deserve to know. It's just not something that's easy for either one of us to talk about, as you can imagine."

"Right," I said, shaking my head. "I can understand that. I don't need details or anything. It's just, that guy who shot him? Who was he? Why would he do that?"