Chapter 94

The matter of my house exploding also caused a bit of a stir in the city, in fact. Luke was responsible for having it certified that the cause was a gas leak in the basement boiler, and that I was unharmed because I had just gone out for a walk around the area at that moment. Or, at least, that was the excuse I gave to the local newspaper when a boy came to do a short interview with me. Although I had no idea, it turned out that a good number of people in town knew that Johanna Greyson, the writer of young adult novels, lived in their county.

Still, I was grateful that no one came to the sheriff’s house to ask any more questions.

Something that worried and bothered me in equal measure, however, was that no one seemed to notice that Ajay Singh, the gas station cashier, had disappeared. Or the rest of his family. When I asked Luke about it, he replied curtly that he had located Sanjay and had gone to the trouble of demanding that he leave and take anyone else connected to