Chapter Nineteen
The puppy had fallen asleep about the same time Cameron had, Luke thought.
As he sat outside in Marcus’s backyard, the sun had already set, and he could hear the soft voices of his family drifting from the house. His dad had pulled out a patio chair and sat down beside Owen, who had taken a minute to get his head around what had happened while he was gone on his honeymoon.
Marcus handed Luke another beer and sat in one of the other chairs between Harold and Ryan. As Jack reclined in the padded lounger with Karen leaning against him, Luke could just make out the state trooper standing off by the side.
“So are we going to talk about the elephant in the room?” Owen said. “You’ve had all this time to wrap your heads around what happened and ask questions, yet here I am, tr
