Chapter 89

Chase’s POV

After speaking to Emma’s mom, every tinge of sleep in my eye fled.

I had suddenly become the center of everyone’s attention.

I kept things away from her, not because of how my dad would feel, but how scared she would get. I watched it happen once, I was gonna watch it happen again.

It was around eleven am when I called my guy, Gray.

I hadn’t spoken with him in almost twelve hours.

I wanted to know how he got home, and most importantly, how he was feeling.

“Hey, what’s up?” He picked up the phone.

“How are you?” I asked him.

I was feeling like a harbinger of bad news. He was still going through Lily’s demise, and I was still making my mind up on telling him how stuff was going with the investigation into Mike’s death.

It was fast becoming a state issue, and one paper already published the story.

I hated the popularity it was gaining. It’s not what I had in mind when I asked Gray to go on, and even fu