Colorado Boulevard by Phoef Sutton

Author:Phoef Sutton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945551161
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Published: 2017-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

When Crush stepped out of the Zerbe house, he remembered he didn’t have a car anymore. It bothered him a little bit that he’d forgotten that, but he shrugged it off and called Gail to take one of his cars and come pick him up. Then he sat on the front step and waited.

By the time she pulled up in a red 1970 Buick GSX, Crush was curled on the step. Donleavy was sitting next to him, watching over him like a border collie tending a sick sheep.

Gail got out, worried. “What’s wrong?”

“Concussion,” Donleavy said. “He should see a doctor.”

“I saw a doctor,” Crush said, eyes still closed. “He says I’m fine.”

“He didn’t say that,” Donleavy said. “He said you should get an MRI.”

“He says I should rest. I’ll rest.” Crush got up, all on his own, and walked to the car. “Thanks for worrying about me, Donleavy.” He swung open the driver’s door.

“No,” Donleavy said. “Let Gail drive.”

Crush looked at her as if she were a crazy person. “But I always drive.”

Gail shoved him over to the passenger side and got behind the wheel. “Just this once.”

Crush didn’t really fight it. “All right. Just this once.”

Gail got in and Crush asked her, “What did you do with the ankle monitor?”

“Don’t worry. I took care of it,” Gail said as she started the car. “Thanks,” she called out the window to Donleavy as she pulled out.

Donleavy waved to her. “Get him to tell you what happened in 2000.”

“Mind your own business,” Crush shouted back at her. The shouting was a bad idea; it made his head throb.

He rubbed his temple and Gail noticed. “We’re getting you to a doctor,” she said.

“No,” Crush said. “First, we’re going to a church.”

“Did you get religion, Crush?”

“I’m thinking about it.”

Gail followed Crush’s directions and drove the Buick down San Rafael. Crush flexed his left foot when she touched the brakes, as if he was driving by remote control. To get his mind off the fact that he wasn’t behind the wheel, he caught Gail up to speed. “I have to talk to Noel,” he said finally. “He must have told somebody about his plan to get Zerbe arrested. They were waiting for him at the warehouse.”

“Okay,” Gail said. “What else?”

“What else what?”

“Tell me what happened back in 2000,” Gail said.

Crush frowned. “It’s only a ten-minute drive. It would take longer.”

“Give me the short version.”

“The short version isn’t possible.”

“Sure it is. Come on, now, I know your mother was living with Emil.”

“She was married to him. For almost a year.”

“When you were sixteen?”

“Seventeen.”

She smiled. “I can’t picture you at seventeen, Crush.”

“I haven’t changed much.”

“And you lived back there. In that castle?”

“Yep. Just like Downtown Abbey.”

“Downton. Tell me about Renee Zerbe.”

“She was their…I guess, my cousin. Emil’s brother’s daughter. We went to school together. Emil pulled some strings to get me into Pasadena Prep. I didn’t quite fit in.”

“I wouldn’t think so.”

“Noel and Angela hated me at first. Hated me and my mother. K.C. was all right.

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