Chapter 29Shit. Sirch and the two secret police wolves appearing at my home ensured this wouldn’t be the wonderful friends hanging out together evening we had planned. The doorbell rang yet again, and I opened the door.
“What are you doing here?” I asked.
Sirch coughed into his arm. “I’m sorry, but we got an anonymous tip your friend Katherine is living here. And we’re going to have to look around.”
My heart thumped a million times faster at the thought of someone snitching on Katherine. Doing so just seemed too cruel. But there was no time in thinking about who might have betrayed Katherine. Not now. I had to pray Sirch and the secret police wolves didn’t figure out what was going on.
“And if I refuse?” I asked.
“It won’t be pretty,” said one of the secret police wolves, snarling.
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