I gasped in horror, my heart stopping inside my rib cage.
I felt Karl's hand hold mine in silence as he parked the car.
"That's my uncle's car." I stated once I noticed Uncle Jax's red Audi."
"That's a good thing, I guess," Karl tried to soothe.
I climbed out in a hurry, dashing towards the front door.
"Hey! Charis, wait!" Karl called from behind as he paced towards me.
"Uncle Jax!" I called out.
"Charis?" I heard him reply as he came running towards me from inside, two police men rushing behind him.
"Charis, oh God where have you been?" The breath got knocked out of me when he pulled me into his arms. "Where have you been!" He asked again, this time not in worry but as a scolding. His eyebrows furrowed, and his lips pursed as he looked down at me from his one-eighty-seven-tall hei
