Chapter 59:
The knock comes again.
I don't move.
There's a man on the porch. I can see the shape of him through the boarded window. Not big. Old. He's got his hand up like he's about to knock a third time and then he doesn't.
I pick up my phone.
I text Kael.
Someone's at the door.
And then I hear him move.
Not his boots on the stairs. Bare feet on the wood. He comes around the corner into the kitchen with his jeans on and nothing else and a gun in his hand and his eyes already open.
"Where?"
"Porch. One man. Old."
"Get behind me."
"I'm behind you."
He goes to the door and looks through the crack between the boards.
"Who is it?"
A voice comes through. Old. Tired. And it's saying something I can't hear.
"What?" Kael says.
"I said I'm alone." The voice is shaking. "I'm alone
