Quinn clapped Zach on the shoulder. "Come on. Let's go do what we need to do, so we can go. We have to be back here in half an hour to pick up Xan and Mom." Quinn paused for just a moment. "He's going to make it, bro. I don't know how I know that, but I do."

Zach nodded, though he didn't believe a word. His dad was going to die, and it was all his fault. "Come on, let's go."

Laney didn't sleep the rest of that night, and all day Sunday, she waited for Zach's call. ...