A Life Debt Repaid

Lindsay’s face fell, fueling the imagination of the journalists, who had been watching them all so closely.

“What happened, Mrs. Saunders? Is it something serious?!” one of them promptly asked, keen for it to be some incredible headline.

Their reaction prompted the rest of the Saunders to turn toward Lindsay, and they realized something was wrong as well.

“What’s wrong, dear?” Marvin promptly asked, but Lindsay’s eyes were red with tears and she could not say a word.

“What’s wrong? You’re scaring me,” Marvin repeated, starting to get nervous as well.

Sam was staring straight at Lindsay as well. “What is it, Mom?”

Lindsay’s lips were trembling, but she still could not say a word as her tears kept rolling down her cheeks.

he noticed that her phone screen

it and read the text, and his face

What happened here? What does the message say?” the journalists

them and got to his feet,

you going, Mr. Saunders?

rising from their seats intent on following Sam but

him to the hallway outside, where he was talking over the phone, his reaction

idea what could make him react like that—it was as if the

was facing a crisis. He was even calm and composed when he was arrested for drunk

lowered his phone and turned toward Quinn, who was staring blankly at him in