Chapter 222: Good Hearted Guy

I'm not sure what I was expecting. Total global meltdown, a zombie apocalypse. Disaster extraordinaire to drop on me from the sky. Yeah, something along those lines. But as I sat there in the kitchen, hands on my jittering knees, mind open to the coven just in case something happened for the fourth straight hour, I finally realized how silly I was being.

Everything was fine. No twinge of warning from Shaylee who seemed to be back to her happy normal. No message from Galleytrot declaring impending doom. Though it did strike me as odd he wasn't home when I arrived, nor did he show at any time during my nervously prepared-for-anything vigil.

In the end, with the tedious and petty day-to-day crap of the rest of the family touching my wide-open thoughts, I finally slumped sideways from hyper-alert to feeling bored and stupid.

Just because Mom was gone didn't mean everything was going to suddenly fall apart. And I'd had enough of feeling like that was the case.

With Dad locked in the bas