Eve moved in her sleep somewhere down the hall. The faint sound of her shifting travelled through the house like a warning.
Ryan didn’t want her waking to this.
But the house didn’t ask permission for danger.
“Ryan,” Steven’s voice cracked through the line. “Please. You know what they’re capable of. You know Leah. If you wait, it might already be too late.”
Ryan’s mouth tightened.
“You went to my mother’s house,” Ryan said. “Did you confront her.”
Steven let out a harsh sound. “I tried. Security wouldn’t let me in. They said she wasn’t home. They said, ” his breath hitched, “, they said if I didn’t leave, they’d call the police.”
Ryan’s eyes narrowed, cold. “And you believed them.”
Steven’s voice turned furious. “No! I don’t believe anything they say. But I can’t get in. I can’t,”
