Chapter 29: Trouble On The Home Front

Chapter 29: Trouble On The Home Front

The Front Room, Dee Clark's General Store, Winchester Dr, Fallon Creek, Michigan.....

After taking his leave of Casey following their final sex romp that day, Alarick Michael Channon found himself getting more than an ear full from his worried godmother when she informed him that the school had called the house and everyone had been looking for him. She let him have it about not calling to say where he'd been the previous night and his lack of respect for her curfew rules. Rick simply stayed quiet and allowed her to unload on him. He could tell by the raised sound of her heartbeat that she'd been terrified that something happened to him. While he had not been an ideal "son" of sorts, she still cared for him, the only remaining piece of her dearest friend who had met with a tragic and unfortunate end. He didn't have the heart to tell her that she'd been wasting her time, that whoever he used to be was long gone and never to return, but he simp