Chapter 30

“I will—”

“You better,” he growls. “Because once you leave here, I’m not letting you fall off the face of the earth again.” As he pushes himself off the bed, he adds, “Now let’s go see how Mom’s doing, what do you say?”

While he goes down the hall in search of his shoes, I open the phone and scroll through my contacts until I see it. joey, all caps, and his number. A ball of happiness sizzles in my stomach, as if I just got the school jock’s home number.

Now every single time the phone rings, I’m going to hope it’s him. 6