Jasper’s POVIt’s getting dark outside, and Tara still isn’t back home. I keep checking my phone to see what time it is, and with each passing minute, I’m getting more and more worried. Where could she have gone? She doesn’t know this neighborhood, and she left here angry and upset.I’m sitting in the living room, trying to focus on the TV, but I can’t concentrate on anything. My eyes keep drifting to the window, hoping to see Tara walking up the driveway. But there’s nothing. Xavier is pacing around the house, and I can tell he’s just as worried as I am. He keeps going to different windows, looking out like he might spot Tara somewhere in the distance.“This is all your fault,” I say to him, not trying to hide my frustration. “Why couldn’t you just clean up the water immediately when it spilled?”Xavier stops pacing and turns to look at me. “It was an accident, Jasper,” he says, and I can hear the tiredness in his voice. “I’ve told you this a hundred times already.”“Well, maybe if
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