Jaxon

"What?" I barked into the phone as I picked up.

"It's Max," he finally answered after a moment of silence, his voice shaking.

I frowned, wondering why he was calling me and why he sounded so terrible. My hackles immediately went up, something was clearly wrong.

"What's going on Max?" I demanded. "Spit it out."

Sara sat up and looked at me with a worried expression; she shuffled closer to me so that she could maybe hear the ...