Chapter 12 When Gage woke up alone, he knew it was bad. But he didn’t realize the type and extent of the badness until Sherry called to inform him that Christopher had been by the house looking for Bowden. Gage knew what she was going to say after that, but it still came as a hard shock when she added Christopher had gone to the hospital. It didn’t matter what Christopher thought he was doing, or why he was doing it, riding off to confront Gage’s family was not going to help the situation. He didn’t want Christopher anywhere near them. Not now, not ever. He especially didn’t want Christopher to think he needed to fight his battles or stand up for his honor, or whatever the hell it was he thought he was doing. Gage called down to the front desk and requested a taxi. He had one more twenty

