Evening in the Yellow Wood : The Lantern Creek Series Book 1 by Laura Kemp

Author:Laura Kemp [Kemp, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Ramirez and Clark Publishing
Published: 2022-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

Salmon Fest was pretty much a bust after the break wall incident.

I tried to cajole Dylan, tried to make him understand why I’d ended up out there in the first place, but nothing seemed to satisfy him.

“At least the bleeding stopped,” I offered.

He grunted something, still energized by his encounter with Jamie. “So, you take off half-blind and try to scale those rocks? Why didn’t you tell me you weren’t sick? We could’ve sat it out somewhere until the vision passed.”

“I don’t know how I got out there.” I looked down. “Holly doesn’t know about them. Neither does Dave or all those girls who worship you and the last thing I need is for everyone to think you’ve hooked up with a psycho.”

He stopped short. “That’s what this is about? You’re afraid of what everyone will think?”

I shrugged.

“Who the hell cares? You almost fell into Lake Huron!”

I looked down.

“When I got back to the bench and you weren’t there I started asking around. Pam said he saw you walk towards the break wall. I wouldn’t have made it in time, would’ve had to fish you out of the water so don’t pull this shit on me.”

I bit my lip, tried to put myself in his place.

“I promise I’ll tell you next time. I’ve already started locking the door and charging my phone and now I know I have a tendency to climb dangerous objects while in a catatonic state.”

He looked at me, his face made of stone.

“It’s not like I know what I’m doing. I’ve never been this weird before.”

Something in my speech must have moved him because he gave a half smile, pulled me close.

“I’m serious, Justine. We’re in this together or I’m out.”

His words felt like ice on a suntanned shoulder.

A moment passed before he spoke again, and in the interim, his voice softened into, “Wanna watch the fireworks?”

I glanced over my shoulder. “Dave and Holly?”

“Left a while ago. Seems your roommate can’t hold her liquor.”

We wandered down the beach and away from the pulsating lights of Salmon Fest until we reached a cove whose only inhabitants included a man with a guitar and three girls who had gathered to listen to him play.

We stopped amongst an isolated copse of trees, strains of Ain’t No Sunshine filling the silence between us. Sitting down on a blanket of dried moss, he put an arm around my shoulder.

We sat for a long time, listening to the guitar and the low voices of those who had assembled around it.

“I knew Karen all through school,” he said, and I turned, looked at him and knew he’d been waiting for this moment. “It didn’t get serious until she started coming down to the docks when I worked Marine Patrol.”

“When did Jamie find out?” I asked, hoping my question didn’t bother him. But he didn’t seem to mind. In fact, he seemed relieved.

“He asked her point blank a couple of days before the accident. She couldn’t lie.”

“Were you friends with him before?”

“Nope.”

“But,” I began, wondering if I should tell him what I knew.

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