I had the whole thing backwards, and his daughter was about to turn it right-side up in the front seat of my uncle’s borrowed car.
Chapter 1: The Favor
I’m Cody, and at nineteen I needed my job more than my boss could possibly know.
My mom raised my little sister and me alone, and every paycheck got split before I ever got home — groceries, the electric bill, whatever my sister needed for school.
So I was the perfect employee for Roland.
Early, reliable, grateful, never asking a single question about the man who signed my checks.
Within a year he trusted me with the deliveries, the keys, the closing of the store at night.
Then one Friday he called me in and asked me to take his eighteen-year-old daughter Harper to prom, because her date had backed out.
