Lainey POV
Nothing answered me but the rain.
I stood under the edge of the roof with my arms wrapped around myself and felt stupid. It was three in the morning. I was calling for a stray dog in a storm because I had nobody else to call.
I had my hand on the door to go back in when a branch snapped.
My head came up.
He was walking out of the trees. He wasn't creeping this time, and he wasn't limping. He came straight across the yard through the rain, steady and unhurried, with his head up and those golden eyes on me.
I don't know why, but the sight of him calmed me. My shoulders came down. I could breathe all the way in for the first time since I had seen the car in the driveway.
I sat on the top step, under the overhang. He climbed up until he was out of the rain, shook once, and la
