Blue Sky Lies by Sasha Silsbury

Author:Sasha Silsbury [Silsbury, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

DAN

blushes and paperwork

Dan can’t stop thinking about the blush. He doesn’t even remember the last time he saw an alpha blush outside of high school, and seeing it on Otto?

It was damned attractive is what it was.

It also meant that not only did Otto remember but it wasn’t just a drunk mistake. He’d wanted to do it.

Dan’s not quite sure what to make of that.

He’s sitting behind his desk in the police station, trying to work out what needs to go in the police report about Cole Bennett, the omega that Ronmin and Otto had attacked in the forest.

The station is quiet. It usually is during the week of the mating run. Everyone causing trouble is up on the mountains while the locals stay home. The Winterstokes deal with the mountain problems and all Dan has to do is file reports.

Next week will be different. Then all the local crime that has been going on indoors will start to rear its ugly head, but for now, Dan has time to catch up on his paperwork. Or screenwork as it is now.

Dan leans closer to the monitor and rereads the words he put down only minutes before.

No one reads these. Or at least they don’t now. Maybe sometime in the future, there’ll be some kind of investigation and every report Dan has filed in the last fifteen years will make a giant dossier to be used against him, but for now, how much he actually decides to put in these reports is between him and his conscience.

His conscience isn’t winning. On the other hand, guilt is having a field day.

Dan rolls back on his chair to grab the folder with the photos of Bennett’s injuries so he can scan them into the system.

He can’t help flinching at the sight of them. Again.

Did Otto do it? He can’t imagine it. A year ago, he would have been able to imagine it easily. To Dan, Otto looks like the kind of man who’d chase an omega down in the woods, or at least he used to.

The kind of man who’d blush over a drunk kiss wouldn’t do that.

Except he probably had. He’d been there. Dan would put money on it.

Dan feeds the last photo into the scanner, his mind rushing to fill in the gaps. The mental image of Otto’s teeth scraping along Bennett’s neck as the omega screams has been haunting him ever since he saw the injuries.

No, don’t do that. Think about something else.

The kiss. It had been nice. Real nice. Or at least it had before Otto threw up. That bit had been a little gross.

No, don’t think about that either.

Elyse was right. Whatever was going on had to stop. It was going to get all of them killed. He might have no idea what it was yet, but she was right about that.

The memory of Michael returns: Michael lying on the floor by Dan’s feet returns, his blood spilling over the floor towards Dan’s shoes.

The memory is still razor-sharp, even after so many years.

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