Chapter Eleven
Chance
The next day, I sat in my office, looking out the window while thinking about everything that Ruby had been through when my brother, Cayce, walked in. “Hey, baby bro. How’s it going?”
Turning in my chair to look at him, I told him the truth. “You know, I’m not really sure how it’s going.”
He took a seat and smiled at me. “So, Mom let it slip that you’ve been keeping a secret from everyone.”
“Yeah.” I figured she wouldn’t be able to keep it to herself. “She’s excited about it.”
“You don’t seem that excited about it,” he pointed out. “Wanna tell me why that is?”
“The situation is complicated. I’ve known Ruby nearly my whole life. You know that. What you don’t know is that when we were in the sixth grade, I asked her to make a pact with me that if we hadn’t found
