How I convinced Santiago that Mika and I would be completely safe on a little expedition up the hollow to Farrow’s house, I’m not sure, especially given how Landon had asked no one to come visit. But when I told my boyfriend I felt like I needed to talk to Landon further and why, he didn’t try too hard to stop me.
He did insist, however, that I not go alone, that I keep an open line with Savannah the entire time, and that she wait at the gas station at the bottom of the mountain just in case we needed her. I didn’t mind any of these options because, despite the previous success Mika and I had in sleuthing, we both knew how quickly a situation could go sideways.
When I said that to Santiago, he laughed. “I think you just like to use the expression go sideways.” He wasn’t wrong.
go sidewa
