My Family Toasted

had betrayed him.”

Everyone.

That was new.

“Where did he go?”

“I don’t know.”

“Is he safe?”

“I think so. He took the Lexus.”

I rubbed my forehead.

Mom sobbed softly. “Preston is furious. Meredith says you planned this to destroy the family. Your father won’t answer me. I don’t know what to do.”

For twenty-nine years, that sentence would have activated me like continue reading …