Grace My heart raced as I stared at my phone. I waited for him to call back, but as time stretched on and the night began to fall, I had to give up. Amira headed home. Eason and I headed back home as well, though he didn't ride with me. I wanted to ask him to, but he was gone before I could. I could have really used the company. He got home before me, but he didn't stay downstairs long enough to talk after raiding the freezer, warming something up, and disappearing upstairs. I tried not to think about what that all meant or much else. I tried to trust Charles' skill, so I showered. I tried to do some research. I tried to talk to Eason, but he was dead asleep by the time I tried to. I put Cecil and Richard to sleep. Margaret had come home about an hour after I'd put the kids together, pau

