Chapter 324

The porch light was on.

Jonah saw it from the upstairs hallway window when he got up for water, the yellow cast of it falling across the outdoor chairs, and he saw the shape of his father in one of them before he'd fully registered it.

He went down.

Evander sat in the chair nearest the railing with a glass in his hand, not the posture of someone relaxing but of someone who'd gone somewhere to be a