Chapter 23

Salvatore

When Lorie called him, Salvatore explained everything and asked her to tell Sophia. If he couldn’t tell her himself, her best friend was a perfect alternative.

He’d been in his car before he’d finished telling Lorie what really happened at the marina, and he knew if the talk she was having with her father wasn’t going well, she would need him beside her when it was over. Not an hour later.

The trip into the city seemed to take hours, but he made it in record time. Clayton picked Salvatore up at the dock, and the confinement of sitting and waiting in the back seat was torture. His heel tapped on the floorboard and he checked his phone constantly.

He’d asked Lorie to tell Alexato call him, but what if Alexadidn’t believe her friend? What if she was ignoring him or pushing him away because she was angry with him?

If he could only see her and tell her how sorry he was that the life they’d returned to wasn’t as good as they’d hoped. He’d wanted to give her a life free of worry, e