Come a Little Closer (Kadia Club Nights Book 1) by Nicole York

Author:Nicole York [York, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2020-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

17

Marcus

Cole’s jaw flexed as he glanced at the matte black watch on his wrist. It was twenty minutes to one in the morning. He shook the sleeve of his jacket back down over his wrist and searched the partygoers. “He should be here by now.”

Marcus eyed the ex-cop with irritation. “Why would you expect Cooper to be on time? He’s making me sweat it out.”

“I don’t like it,” Cole growled. “Something is off. Cooper doesn’t just wait around. He’s late because he had something to do.”

Marcus shrugged. That might have been true, and it might not have been. Even if Cooper did have something to do before meeting Marcus, who was to say it had anything to do with their appointment at the underground rave?

“Be patient,” Marcus said. “He’ll come.”

Jon, who had been quiet during the exchange, ran his finger around the rim of his untouched bourbon. “I always figured you’d end up at a place like Kadia,” Jon said to Marcus. “I should have put two and two together when Cole called and said he had a job to run under the radar with his new boss. How did you put it, Cole?”

“Put what?” Cole glowered.

“You referred to Marcus as ‘a cunning brute with shit manners and a bad attitude.’” Jon smirked.

Marcus arched an eyebrow and turned to Cole. Now wasn’t a time for jokes and amusement but he couldn’t deny he was entertained. “Cunning? I’m flattered.”

“Don’t be,” Cole said. “There was more left unsaid.”

Marcus chuckled.

Cole still seemed flustered. Marcus had never taken the ex-cop for a patient man when it came down to the shit like this. Adam Cooper had him champing at the bit. Where Marcus had settled into the calm before the storm, Cole seemed to have become the storm.

The three men moved away from the bar so as not to look suspicious. They milled around the lower level of the party until they found another spot that was secluded but not enough to look suspicious. They were surrounded by strangers sipping their drinks as they stood below the staircase.

Marcus noticed thin dark green vines creeping through the cracks in the floor and walls and wondered how something could ever grow in a place like this. There was no sunlight.

Life always finds a way.

“Kate’s going to be happy to hear you’re still cock deep in this kind of shit,” Jon said.

Marcus couldn’t tell if he was joking or not. Would Kate actually be happy for him? Or would she worry he was still on a one-way road to his own demise? Perhaps it would be a little bit of both.

“She doesn’t need to know,” Marcus said.

“I have no intention of lying to my wife.”

Wife. The word hit Marcus in the gut. He already knew Jon and Kate were married. Hell, he’d been to the wedding—but that didn’t cushion the blow.

“How are you and Katie?” Marcus asked, even though he didn’t want to know. “Any kids yet? I know she wanted to start as soon as possible.”

Jon went a little quiet.

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