Chapter 131 Not So Golden

• Then he looked over at Aiden, standing by the exit door, watching the whole scene, and some of the calm drained away. For someone like Aiden, someone like the person Cade was trying to become, this would be a bigger deal. Aiden really shouldn’t be involved in any of this, but Cade was too close to his old self to care. Let the golden boy see how things really were, if he was so interested. Then he’d leave Cade alone to get back to studying.
• So he didn’t say anything to discourage Aiden from falling in beside him as they walked back to the house, and when he got to the broken chainlink fence and Aiden said, “Do you want me to come in with you?” Cade shrugged.
• “Do what you want.” But there was enough compassion even in old Cade to make him add, “You’d probably be happier if you didn’t, though.”