Chapter 7

There was a two-second silence on the line.

Then I heard a chair being pushed back abruptly, followed by hurried footsteps.

"Are you home?" It was the first time Michael had spoken to me today.

I was taken aback. His voice wasn't nearly as cold as I'd expected.

He sounded like he was struggling to get the words out, and there was a feeling in his voice I'd never heard from him before.

"Yeah," I replied.

"Don't go anywhere. I'll be there in forty minutes." Then he hung up.

My hand was still shaking as I held the phone.

'He's…