“How? Did you think she was just going to hop on and go with you without a problem?” He looked at Sam and fidgeted a bit before looking back at me. “Is that how you take all the others to him?”

“No, this time was different. The kids usually go out to this place for work and a hot meal…”

“What place?”

“It’s a place in town that went out of business a while ago. Calhoun rents office space there, but there’s nothing in there but some phones and ...