Chapter 73

“How long will it be until we can go home?” she asked him.

“We have something that we’re going to try,” Jason told her, with Cameron’s nod. “Hopefully it will work and you’ll be able to come home in a day or so. We don’t want the kids around while we’re doing it because it’s definitely risky, but we’ve got our fingers crossed.”

“I’ll pray,” she told him. “Perhaps it will help.”15

Cameron went home the next day. Reid drove, meeting them out front in his old van. Jason piloted him out to the curb in a rickety old wheelchair that felt about as stable as Cameron’s nascent relationship with Jason, but he still picked up on Cameron’s sudden tension when he saw the van. “What, you got a problem with vans now?”

Cameron swallowed. “When they took me. They had a van.” He licked his lips. “It was an old one, like from the eighties.”

Jason put a hand on Cameron’s shoulder. “It’s okay, man. I’ve got you.”

Cameron nodded, averting his eyes. “It’s the only way to get home, right?”