Chapter 54

VANCE

My stomach drops.

Beat.

I breathe once, twice.

No air in it.

Across the room, the boy holds her photograph, and every muscle in me remembers how to kill.

Heat climbs the back of my neck.

My jaw clicks.

That’s all the warning I get before rage settles in.

“What did you say?”

He blinks at me. “She’s my mom.”

I buried her. With my own fucking hands. How the hell can she be your mom when I watch