The Son Who Chose A Stranger

rah was moving in, forcing me out, I returned to our ho

eavy, uneven footsteps sounded behind me

, but through the peephole, Ethan' s shadow moved, then his

anger' s comfort over my safety, a drunken

, only to hear Ethan tell Mark on the phone,

ed, to comfort Sarah, who stood draped in m

ou, Ava. Making a scene in the middle of the

placed me, for the crime of being assaulted on my own doorst

ing allergy, and Mark merely stared, impatient, without a flicker of recogn

as gone, replaced by a cold stranger, eager for me to

found betrayal, somet

"I'm going to need to make a statement to

who saw me as an inconvenience, I spoke to the police, the