Chapter 5

He blanked out, muttered incoherently for a minute, then admitted it was just a hunch.

Then he mumbled about having somewhere to be and took off.

Curtis tracked me down later, explaining that Darnell was blunt and often shot his mouth off without thinking.

I fixed him with a stare. "You were in on whatever he did—you tagged along, didn't you?"

His expression shifted.

Darnell had always followed Curtis' lead like a puppy.

No chance Curtis was out of the loop on this.

After that, I started dodging Curtis and Darnell every time they tried to catch up with me.