The Silence of Eighteen Calls

Summary

She threw me out of the car on the interstate, in the dead of night, all because I wouldn’t give the passenger seat to her assistant.

“You want to act so tough, Ethan? Fine. Walk home. Or die out here for all I care!”

Two weeks later, a local news report about a homicide finally jogged her memory.

“It’s been two weeks,” she’d muttered, annoyed. “Is he still throwing a tantrum? Does he plan on living on the highway forever?”

Her head of security, Marcus, had to deliver the news. “Ma’am… Mr. Hayes… he was killed.”