Chapter 46

ANDREA.

Sweat formed on my hands as I stepped out of Jenny's car and stood at the front of the gate of a small gray-colored house. This was the address that Riley gave us. And the prospect of meeting my grandmother for the first time elicited a wide range of emotions in me.

I couldn't, for the life of me, remember anything about her. My mother never talked about her or about my father's parents. I grew up thinking it was just the three of us. And I was okay with that.

But now, standing here outside her home, I wish I had met her before. Then maybe I could have someone with whom I could share all my emotions and fears. Maybe things would have been different.

I pressed the small button attached to the post of the gate, and I heard it ring inside the small house. I saw movement in the window as someone peered from behind the curtain, but I couldn't see through it. The inside of the house was dark.

And then the front door opened.

My jaw dr