Chapter 36
It was almost four o’clock that morning as Chris sat on the back deck of his house, wrapped in a blanket. His gaze was on the approaching storm, but his thoughts were on his day. It had started so perfectly, curled up with James. He couldn’t have guessed then that the day would have been full of attacks and such pain, ending with Mark Reynolds’s arrest. The nightmare was over, at least it should be.
Lightning danced across the clouds, then thunder rumbled in the skies to the west. Chris hoped for rain and the peace it seemed to bring to him, especially since now a stormy night wasn’t as scary as it had been recently. The relief of knowing he wasn’t being hunted by a killer was slowly bringing a normalcy back to him, but he wasn’t quite there yet.
He laid his head back on the
