ETHAN’s POV
I was just returning from school, dragging my suitcase behind me. The house was quiet, extremely quiet. My mother had told me she would be gone for a while. It was another one of her endless “business trips.” But her closest friend, Daniel, was supposed to be around.
If he was here, where was he?
I paused in the living room, my gaze sweeping the empty couches, the faint smell of whiskey lingering in the air. He hadn’t answered when I called earlier. A part of me thought he was ignoring me because that’s what my Mom is known for. Another part of me hoped he wasn’t.
Because if there’s a greater liar than the devil, it’s Daniel.
He wore loyalty like a mask for my mother’s sake, but I had seen him without it. I had seen the hunger in his eyes, the kind of hunger only a body co
