_Author’s POV_
Zarelle was taken aback by Pitchy’s suggestion. Indeed, Calden was exasperating, and she could easily leave him outside. Yet, she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
“If we leave him out there, he’ll catch a cold. I don’t want to be responsible for that,” Zarelle explained to Pitchy as she searched for Thomas’s phone number.
Luckily, Thomas was still awake when she called. He answered promptly, his voice filled with concern. “Zarelle, what’s wrong?”
“Thomas, can you come over to Verona Heights Estates? Your cousin is drunk, and his best friend left him outside my house,” Zarelle said, her frustration evident in the space between her eyebrows.
Thomas immediately agreed, “Okay, I’ll be right there.”
He showed up in half an hour and carried the inebriated Calde
