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But shock was the word that best describes how I felt in that car

I had a le one

And I certainly couldn’t bring myself to make nice with the two ers, hen I wouldn’t go with theun

A little boy with blonde curls and icy blue eyes that matched mine

A little boy who’d calledup without mytogether in one h to think I could untangle it, the knot just wound tighter, until it consu itself around the potential for anything good to result fro it to death

It was shitty of the the boy It was only because of him that I sat in stunned silence, unable to ask my usualthing and traumatize hi; so quiet that I’h, you could actually hear ainst the asphalt as we accelerated onto the highas a welcome reprieve

The er seat Everything about hile wrinkle or sweat stain, and despite the heat and hu to think that the suit was its own living, breathing entity It was too damn perfect I wouldn’t have been surprised if there was a s the senator/ suit being

A phone vibrated in the front seat "PRICE" The senator barked into the receiver After a few seconds ofinto the phone, he reached overhead and pressed a button, closing the blacked out partition, separating the front seat from the back

I sat in the back on one side of the bench seat, a sth away from the boy who’d introduced himself as Tanner

My boyfriend?

No HER boyfriend

"You know…," Tanner said to me in a whisper, a mischievous look in his chestnut eyes "…he’s the very reason they stopped calling the thing you say when you answer the phone a ‘greeting’" I forced a s out the

For , I stared at Tanner’s profile and willedto locate the card that listed Tanner and whatin that fresh-faced toothpaste co when I looked at hie, he was still just a boy

Which was one word I could never use to describe…hi myself to think about him just yet I didn’t want to It was all too ’s betrayal, his arrest I couldn’t process it But when I looked over at Tanner again, I couldn’t help but make a comparison Where Tanner was clean skin and sunshine, tall and lean like his body was built by swi was tanned and tattooed with a constant thunderstorm in his eyes Hiswith the devil hi at Tanner, I kneas looking ata hole in my cheek But every time I turned my head his way he averted his eyes and pretended to be interested in so out the

And then there was the little boy

The fact that I could be a mother was coh, he was the only thing in that car I felt sure about

My father, my boyfriend, my son The Town Car was filled with my supposed family, and yet, with the exception of the little one, every fiber offurther and further aith every le bit of it King had told me he loved me Maybe that was a lie too I didn’t knohat I could believe anymore

Don’t be just be alive Live He’d toldtoward King for lying to me had temporarily fallen away the second I saw the look of disappointment cross over his face when he realized Max wasn’t in that car

And then when the detective put hie