Chapter 41

“Get back,” Dad says again.

This time he doesn’t wait, just gasses the car and roars ahead. I stare after him for a second, then jog back to my own car. As I slide into my seat, I sigh, disgusted. “I’m killing Ray,” I announce, buckling my seat belt. Then I point at the other car and say, “Follow them.”

“You have to get in line,” Caitlin tells me. Dan releases the brake and we fall behind my parents, Dan easily matching my dad’s speed. Gathering her things together in the back, my sister tells us, “I get him first.”

“I’m older than you,” I argue. My hands are fisted on my knees and one of my legs shakes in anger I can barely hold in check. “I have dibs.”

“I live with him,” Caitlin points out. “That gives me precedence.” Noting my mood, she leans forward and jokingly asks Dan, “What about you? Don’t you want in?”

Dan flashes her a troubled smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “Me? I’m holding him down.”