Chapter 23
Hadley showed up to Sam’s with a bucket filled with cleaning supplies. She didn’t care if he didn’t want her there, she was going to prove to him that he could push and shove her away as much as he wanted, but she wasn’t going anywhere. She would always take care of him just as he had always taken care of her.
She knocked on the door, not surprised when it went unanswered, so she turned the knob to let herself in. She was surprised when the knob wouldn’t turn. He’d locked her out. She huffed to herself and planted her hands on her hip. “Not today, smartass,” she said as she walked around the side of the house to the deck and pulled up the broken board. She stuck her hand into the hole and pulled out the fake rock that held the spare key.
With the key in her hand, she went bac
