Now hearing nothing but the beeping of the disconnected line, Calvin stood stock-still, wondering how everything went so wrong.
Before Sam abruptly left a few days ago, things had been going so well—at least where Calvin was personally concerned.
He had just made a real friend for the first time in his life, and it was the last type of person his younger self could have expected.
Ever since he arrived in this house less than a year ago, Sam had been an enigma. The agency that sent him had been at its wits’ end, with prospective employees outrightly refusing to work for the Palmers due to the horror stories they’d heard circulating from former ones.
Whether or not Sam knew about those stories was unknown, but he had accepted the job. And long after learning firsthand what the working co
