Arresting Behaviour by Morticia Knight

Author:Morticia Knight [Knight, Morticia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

It had been a long and interesting day and Quinn’s head spun. The sun was setting low on the horizon as Jake’s truck rolled down the highway and they headed back to Mesa to drop him off at his car. They had settled into a comfortable silence, and he enjoyed the warm air coming through the truck’s window, and the sound of Johnny Cash’s voice singing a cover of the song Hurt by Trent Reznor. The gruff vibrato and plaintive acoustic guitar fit perfectly with the plea in the song—seeking redemption through pain.

Quinn tried to shake himself out of the melancholy of his thoughts and reached for Jake’s hand. Jake squeezed Quinn’s in response. At the end of the song, Quinn turned the volume down a little.

“I like that you’re not an extreme air conditioning guy.”

Jake chuckled. “I’m not sure I know what that means.”

“Well, everyone’s pretty addicted to constant refrigerated air around here. They act as if the temperature rises above sixty degrees they’re going to waste away. They might as well go live in Alaska and be done with it.”

“Yeah, well when I was a kid we couldn’t afford to have the air conditioning running night and day with my parents trying to raise five children. We only used it during the middle of the day when the heat got to be the worst, so I’m used to the warm air at night. It’s relaxing. I wouldn’t mind seeing Alaska some time though, I bet it’s gorgeous up there.”

Something about bringing up Alaska out loud made Quinn start to feel an urge to head there. It had jumped into his head from seemingly nowhere.

That’s silly. There’s too much going on right now. Plus, there’s Jake.

What was he going to do about him when all of this was through? Right now they were sort of testing the waters with each other in a very restricted way. Jake had been clear that nothing could happen between them until the case was wrapped up. What if it took years to catch the murderer? What if he kept on killing and killing? That thought caused him to pull away from Jake—it was just too awful a thing to consider.

“What’s wrong?”

He did like how the guy just spoke his mind and didn’t dick around. It was refreshing and more the way he liked to deal with things. He’d certainly always been very blunt with his lovers—most of whom hadn’t been able to handle it.

“I had a scary thought. What if we never get this guy, and he just keeps on going and going? I don’t think I could cope with that. I doubt I could even process one more life being lost because of me.”

“Hey, we’ve been through that. You’re not to blame, he is.”

Jake took Quinn’s hand back and stroked the top of it with his thumb, just as they pulled off the highway, and headed towards Main Street and downtown. Soon they’d be back at his car, and he would be saying goodnight to Jake, and going back to his home alone.

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