Chapter 204 Persevere

• Grace
• My heart raced as I stared at my phone. I waited for him to call back, but as time stretched on and the night began to fall, I had to give up. Amira headed home. Eason and I headed back home as well, though he didn't ride with me. I wanted to ask him to, but he was gone before I could. I could have really used the company. He got home before me, but he didn't stay downstairs long enough to talk after raiding the freezer, warming something up, and disappearing upstairs.
• I tried not to think about what that all meant or much else. I tried to trust Charles' skill, so I showered. I tried to do some research. I tried to talk to Eason, but he was dead asleep by the time I tried to. I put Cecil and Richard to sleep. Margaret had come home about an hour after I'd put the kids together, paused in the doorway of the living room, and rolled her eyes.