“That must also be the reason why you didn’t call us before you ran off half-c****d,” he said pointedly. “Did we not agree I would handle this?”
“You said you would go after the goren dealer. I didn’t think you wanted me to call you about anything else.”
He looked out the windshield with an audible sigh. “Let me rephrase what I said this morning since I wasn’t clear enough then. Anything that concerns your parents is of interest to me. The next time you get a lead on them, you call me immediately. Is that understood?”
“Yes.” I pressed my lips together. How was it possible for someone to give me butterflies in one encounter and make me feel like a scolded child in the next?
“Good.”
I leaned forward. “What about the call I got from my mother? Her phone didn’t just end up at some random
