Fighting Lies by Kellie Perkins

Author:Kellie Perkins [Perkins, Kellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Keeva’s phone chirped again. She pulled it out of her pocket and set it to silent without even looking at the screen. She knew who the call was from. Marshall. He’d been calling regularly, every half hour, since early that afternoon.

She wasn’t ready to talk to him yet.

She was sitting on the low cinderblock wall that separated Trota’s from the restaurant behind it. Trevor, dear, sweet Trevor, had brought her another of those sweet drinks. But she was taking it slower tonight, sipping it as she reclined and watched the stars twinkle in the sky above her.

“How long have you been here?”

She sat up at the sound of his voice. He was leaning against the back of the restaurant, a glass of something dark in his hand.

“Too long.”

“Waiting for Maria?”

She shrugged. “Waiting for whatever means I don’t have to go back to Marshall’s.”

“Well, if you’re worried about running into Rose and Jenny, don’t. They went to Dallas to visit her parents.”

“Too boring around here, I guess.”

Nash was in the middle of taking a swallow from his glass. He chuckled, nearly choked on the liquid. “Something like that,” he said when the drink had settled in his stomach.

She smiled, unable to forget that this was how their first night together had started. He’d found her out here, still stuck in her grief. And he took her away, helped her forget for a while how badly it felt to be suddenly left alone in the world. She remembered how much like Luke he had seemed to her then. It was funny, since there was little about the two men that was really the same. Not in their physical existence, anyway. Character, though, might have been a different story.

“Did he really smile at you?”

Nash watched the smile disappear from her face, watched the grief slip over her again with a heavy veil that she could feel as much as see in his eyes.

“Keeva,” he whispered, the same pain she could feel bubbling up in her chest in his voice.

“I keep telling myself that it wasn’t your fault. That Luke shouldn’t have gotten into that ring that night. There was something…” She reached up and ran her fingers through her hair, piling it high on her head before slipping her fingers away and letting it cascade around her face again. “But I can’t stop imagining what it must have been like for him to see that blow coming, to know what it would mean, and to be unable to stop it.”

“He could have stopped it.”

Keeva jumped down off the wall and started toward the end of the alley, unable to talk about it anymore. She had been running it over in her mind, over and over, trying to figure this out, to figure out what Luke knew, when he knew it, and why he made the choices he did. It seemed so obvious to her that Luke knew something. He was saying goodbye.

He never called her before a bout. Said it made him nervous just to see her face before a fight, let alone to hear her voice.

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