Chapter 30
WALKING DOWN dead escalators is harder than running up them. The steps are too tall, even for me, and too narrow to comfortably stand on. Each lurch down dragged my spirits with it. For a few glorious minutes, everything had seemed so simple. I investigated Doug’s transformation. Someone attacked me to stop it. I saw a guy who had threatened to get me. He ran. I chased. But he’d fled thinking that I meant him harm, not because he’d tried to kill me and failed.
Simple dissolved into complex too quickly. No reasons for the transformed father. No reason someone would attack me. Twice. Teresa, a woman who might or might not want more from me than s*x, missing. And just as a bonus, two teenage girls who were and weren’t my responsibility throwing wild parties.
The people in the co
