Chapter 6

“Okay.”

Chloe was a new addition. Shane couldn’t quite call her a member of the family yet, but she’d been going out with Dad for almost the whole two years they’d been living in Wheatley, and Dad had never had a girlfriend before. He’d never even gone on a single date since before the divorce, and yet here was Chloe, letting herself in with the key Dad had given her, and toeing off her trainers like she belonged.

“Hope you don’t mind cooking for three, honey,” she said, like she said every time she came over for dinner. “But Steve insisted, and you’re a better cook than me anyway, so I figured why not?”

“S’fine,” Shane said. It was, Chloe was nice and all, it was just…still a bit weird. It’d just been Dad and Jase and Shane for almost as long as Shane could remember, so he still wasn’t quite used to her.

Plus she was twenty-nine. Which was closer to Jason’s age than Dad’s. Ew.