Chapter 25

• Autumn was in full swing and the leaves had turned a golden brown color. Mason lay awake in his bed and listened to the rhythmic breathing coming from Kelley, across the room from him. He smiled then as he thought about their brotherhood and how he’d never thought he’d be friends with him.
• A baby’s cry cut through the silence, it was faint but Mason had still heard it. None of their neighbors had a baby. It was with that thought that he got out of bed and headed downstairs. It was still early, only five am and normally he wouldn’t even be awake.
• ‘Maybe that’s what woke me,’ he thought to himself.