Chapter 19

“I guess.”

“Thanks for watching Wilbur.” He started barking again when I stood. “I wonder what’s wrong with him.”

“Maybe he’ll settle when we go,” Rip said. “Catch you later, Bro-ford. Thanks for tagging along.”

“Anytime. Or never again. I’m good either way.”

Though my sister and brother-in-law exited smiling, my dog was still in a mood.

“What, pupster? What?” I kicked off my shoes and dropped my zip-front hoodie at the door, set my phone down on the coffee table, and then crossed to the kitchen to grab Wilbur a chewy snack to settle him down. The amber bottle in the same cupboard caught my eye. I hadn’t taken one of the pills in months. My anxiety was bearable, and the nightmares were far less frequent. I hadn’t had a flashback hallucination in over a year, unless that was the only explanation for what I’d experienced in Tennessee.