Chapter126:

Chapter 126 SLOANE I watched Dmitri carefully lift Tommy from the backseat of the SUV, the kid still completely knocked out despite the jostling. His phone had slipped from his good hand and was dangling by its cord, some racing game still running on the screen with a "Game Over" message flashing. "Out cold," I observed, reaching to grab Tommy's bag from the trunk while Dmitri adjusted his hold on the sleeping teenager. "The painkillers they sent him home with must be strong." "Probably that combined with actual exhaustion," Dmitri replied, shifting Tommy's weight so the kid's injured shoulder wasn't compressed. "He's been putting on a brave face all week, but I know he hasn't been sleeping well at the hospital. Too many unfamiliar sounds, nurses checking on him constantly." I hit the button to close the garage door behind us, watching as the heavy steel descended with a reassuring thunk. The new house—our new house, I was still getting used to thinking of it that way—had top-of-the-li