Chapter Twenty-Two
Ezra
Life didn't give us a week before the next hurricane blew in.
We'd gone to my dad's house for Sunday lunch. Everyone was gathered around the table when the door banged hard. Finn stood in the doorway, his fists gripped together.
"She's gone," he spat out.
We knew who he was talking about.
Alice.
"Wh- what do you mean gone? Did she d- die?" Juliet whimpered. Lisa grabbed her hand and squeezed it.
"No. I just went to visit, and the hotel told me she'd checked out, but she’d left a note." His face fixed on mine in fury. "It's addressed to you. What did you do? Did you pay her off?"
"That's enough, Finn." Lisa said, surprising me. "Ezra has done no such thing. He gave her some money as he has before, but it was supposed to be used to purchase a home where you c
