A week and a half later, Shannon’s call brought forth the thrilling news we’d been waiting for. Matthew finally gave in to her false inquisitiveness of learning the mechanism of the business.

I had my cars ready and the boys on toes, impatiently waiting for this moment. If I played my cards right, everything would go easy peasy and maybe some of the guilt that had been eating me up would diminish, granting me the strength to move on from a reality I could never go back to reverse.

After meeting up with the boys to go over the plan once more, I drove to Kayleigh’s house. Shannon was already...