He clearly wasn't all the way awake. A few seconds of nothing, just his breathing on the line.
Thunder cracked and broke the quiet, and the tears I'd been holding finally came, and I started to cry.
On this, Ethan was the only person I could trust.
I wanted him to know my father was no crime lord — that he'd been true to his badge right to the end.
But I didn't know what right I had to ask him for anything. If he said no, what then? What happened to my father?
The dream came back at me, and I put a hand over my mouth like all the air had gone out of the room.
One dream, and it had dug up the thing I was most afraid of.
"Ethan. Please say something."
His silence scared me. I was coming apart.
He must have heard it in my voice, because there was some rustling on his end. Then, clear
