Abrupt by Coopmans Kathy

Author:Coopmans, Kathy [Coopmans, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Lane

“You’ve always carried this fucked-up world on your shoulders, Lane. Well, goddamn it, sometimes in life we need to ask for help. Even though you didn’t, you sure as fuck are getting it. I live in New York half the time anyway. I know first-hand how that knife cuts so deep into your gut, twisting the shit out of it until you’re bleeding to death. It can possess your every thought. The more people looking, the better.” I prop my phone up to my ear with my shoulder, hit send on the final bill for a customer to my assistant, and shut down my laptop.

I should have never answered my phone when Rocco called. Wouldn’t have mattered though, he’d be out there hounding like a dog regardless.

The guy went through hell several years back. He still hasn’t found his way out. He dropped right down that hole from rawness, suffering and witnessing his fiancée murdered. It was a horrendous act of jealousy that messed him and Seth up.

Both witnessed his woman getting shot to death. That, plus Seth losing the girl he cared for over it, started his spiral into drinking. Seth fell for Rocco’s younger sister. She moved after the murder. Just up and left without a goodbye.

My brother recovered from his addiction, Rocco didn’t. I’m not sure if he ever will. The guy doesn’t care about anyone except for my family and fucking away his feelings. It’s a damn shame. He’d make a great life partner for someone with as big of a heart as he has.

“How’s business?” I ask, changing the subject. I’d forgotten Rocco took ownership of the building, and Logan bought and turned it into another club right in the heart of Manhattan. Legit dance club with an underground sex organization I’m sure puts the one he owns in Georgia to shame.

My mouth dries, nausea roiling in the pit of my gut when I think back to the days I was as rooted in the sex world as he is.

I let it digest me. Swallow me whole.

A piss poor excuse for not being man enough back then to fight for Sienna. Look what it cost her?

Guttural agony.

I’m deflating because of it.

I swallow the reality. It’ll come right back up, stirring those emotions, yanking on my gut to let it out as soon as we hang up.

“It’s going good, asshole. Don’t try averting on me. I’m no fool, man. You best let that shit out, it’ll poison you if you don’t. Do you get me? Listen up. I know more about computers than all you pretty Mitchell brothers put together. I wish I were calling with news that I found XYZ. They vanished, man. I couldn’t find a thing on the dark web about them except a few videos floating around. That is some messed up shit to watch. I scrolled through, hoping there’d be a contact or some shit, hell I don’t know. Shit will bleed out of my brain. That’s for sure.” The disgust and aggravation in his voice carry through the line.

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