Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

Author:Gregory Ashe [Ashe, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gregory Ashe
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

DAG (8)

“Have you tried talking to him?” Lanny asked at a normal volume.

Nominally, this was a stakeout.

“No talking on stakeouts,” I whispered.

It had been easy to follow Eli here. His story about the job interview had been a classic deflection—anything to let him escape from feeling vulnerable—and while Eli was creative and intelligent and thoughtful in so many ways, he was fairly predictable when it came to his escape routes. I’d bundled Lanny into the Ford with a little white lie, and we’d spotted Eli on our third sweep, just as he was getting into the Uber. After that, we’d followed him to DuPage Parish and Balmoral Castles. I wasn’t sure what he wanted to see behind Ivy’s trailer, but I was giving him five more minutes before I went looking for him.

“Because Doggo, sometimes you make assumptions. So maybe you should talk to him.”

“I’m the one who’s good at communicating,” I whispered. “I’m the one who’s always making the effort. I’m the one, even when it means dragging things out of him because he wants to say them but he doesn’t know how.”

“Right, but, I mean, sometimes you do that thing where you’re so focused on taking care of the other person that, um, maybe you don’t see the big picture.”

“No. Talking.”

I don’t even think we made it thirty seconds before Lanny whispered, “Like with us—”

“No. We are not doing that. We are never doing that. You wouldn’t even be here if you hadn’t assaulted my boyfriend, I mean, no labels, and if you hadn’t snitched on a witch and then tried to attack the scariest-looking woman I’ve ever seen.”

“I was doing what you told me to. You said we were going to find a way to work things out, make things right between us, and then you told me when that lady wasn’t ready, I should hit her—”

“I never said any of that.” The whistle had a strained, shrill quality, and Dag had to work on his breathing for a moment. “Lanny, I feel like I’ve been really cool considering you cheated on me and stole all my money and left without any sort of goodbye and basically made me feel like the stupidest, most worthless person in existence, but if you don’t stop talking, I am going to lose my mind.”

In a surprisingly wounded tone, Lanny said, “I didn’t cheat on you, Doggo.”

I rolled my eyes. Then I looked at the dashboard clock. Eli got two more minutes before I dragged him into the car.

“I didn’t,” Lanny said. “Hand to God. And I left you a note.”

“A grocery list that only includes your favorite breakfast cereals does not count as a breakup-and-goodbye-and-I-stole-your-life-savings note.”

“No, I left you a note. With Bren.”

I shook my head.

“I did! He didn’t give it to you?”

“No, Lanny. He didn’t give it to me. He’s the one who told me about all the guys you’d been sleeping with behind my back.”

“That’s because he wanted to bone you. Well, he wanted you to bone him.”

“He was nice to us because I helped him with his fence.

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