Chapter Twenty-Four: Father
The world stopped.
Kylie gripped the staircase railing so hard her fingers hurt.
“What?”
Wyatt looked between her and Nolan carefully, like he already knew this conversation was about to become catastrophic.
“They found him at the south entrance,” Wyatt said. “Sheriff brought him in ten minutes ago.”
Her father was here.
After weeks of silence.
After dumping her at Pine Ridge without answers.
After every lie.
Every secret.
Every disaster.
Kylie’s pulse turned sharp and uneven.
“No,” she whispered.
Nolan moved down the stairs immediately despite the obvious pain in his shoulder. Kylie followed close behind while anxiety twisted violently through her stomach.
The downstairs hallway buzzed with tense energy now. Ranch hands crowded near the front ent
