Chapter 25
DEACON
Thank God for small miracles.
The tiny female officer I find in front of The Alchemist after responding to the silent alarm all too understanding when I explain the situation with Kayla.
Which I still don’t understand.
Passing off the stubborn brunette who I know better than most as my wife is a strange reality, one that feels uncomfortably right even in the face of all the week has brought.
Grandmama June may have been right. Maybe it was better to let someone like Sevin control the bar.
On our call last night, she’d been, well…her.
Understanding. Unrelenting. Hard as nails.
First order of business on the call? Talking about Kayla’s father, a man I now knew was capable of anything.
I sighed as I sat on the edge my bedroom mattress, the phone gripped hard in my
