Broken by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-03-05T15:17:46+00:00

“WHY in the hell aren’t you answering?” Quinn muttered to himself while he waited for somebody to pick up on the other end.

Quinn had tried calling Luke’s cell phone and after it rolled over to voice mail, he’d hung up and tried calling the house. Back in his basement apartment, he paced the floor, listened to the phone ring, and tried to figure out if he’d lost a grip on reality.

Finally, somebody picked up the phone and Quinn didn’t even wait for a greeting before he barked out, “Damn it, it’s about fucking time.”

There was a pause, and then a soft, female voice said, “The voice is pretty familiar, so I’m going to assume this is Quinn. You can’t be Luke . . . I just left him out in the backyard. Besides, he knows I’d kick his ass if he came on the phone sounding like that.”

Blood rushed to his cheeks and he swore. Immediately, he could have bit his tongue. “Ah . . . sorry, Devon. Uh . . . you said Luke’s in the backyard?”

“Yes. I assume you want to talk to him?”

“Yeah . . . uh, yes, please.” He pinched the bridge of his nose and tried to figure out why talking to the woman who’d married his brother always made him feel more than a little tongue-tied.

Actually, most women tended to do that to him . . . unless he disliked them. The ones he disliked, he just ignored or avoided. Trying to talk to them wasn’t even an issue.

Sara was easy to talk to, though. He could talk to Sara forever . . .

“I’m getting him now. Is everything okay?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s good. Are you still in St. Louis?”

Quinn grimaced as he paced the floor. “Yeah, I’m still in St. Louis. Probably hanging around here, too.”

After all, Sara was here. He wasn’t going anywhere unless she went with him.

“That’s good to hear . . . do me a favor, though. Call a little more often. Luke worries about you,” Devon said quietly.

“He doesn’t need to. I’m doing fine. Actually better than I have been in a while.” A vague sense of shame rose within him, made him itch, but it wasn’t the kind of itch that could be scratched. He didn’t call his brother enough—he knew that. It normally didn’t bother him. But having Devon point it out definitely did. “Look, I’ll try to call more often.”

“Good.”

He heard the door open and then Devon’s voice as she called out to Luke.

A few seconds later, Luke came on the line and his voice was flat and harsh. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong.” Quinn scowled. Well, other than the fact that I’m in love and I don’t know what to do.

Luke was quiet for about two seconds. “Nothing? You sure?” “Yeah, I’m sure. I think I’d know if something was wrong,” he snapped.

“Don’t take this wrong, but if nothing’s the matter, why are you calling?”

“You act like I’ve never called you before,” Quinn said.

“Oh, you’ve called before. But it’s almost always when I’m either pissed off, or something else is off with me.

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