Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Family Favor

Mathaniel picked up the pen and signed both copies without slowing down.

He stood, threw the pen into the trash, and said, “You want out this badly, then you’ve got it.”

Nathaniel slammed the door on his way out hard enough to shake the frame.

The windows hummed in their frames for a long moment after he was gone.

Seraphina didn’t bother working out what had set him off this time. I’ve done my part. Let it go at that.

Her mother, Diane Ashford, called at the end of her shift and asked her to come by the house that night