Chapter 28 Gone

• “He should have texted by now,” I said, checking my phone for what felt like the hundredth time in an hour. “He said he’d call after meeting with Silas.”
• “Give him time,” my father said, though I could hear the tension underneath his own calm tone. “These things take longer than expected sometimes.”
• We’d spent the whole day preparing, going over evidence, building a timeline of everything Marcus had done over the past fifteen years, while Damon had gone to meet Silas alone that afternoon, insisting it would look less suspicious if he went by himself, one more errand among the dozens he usually ran before a big pack event.