For A Reason by T.N. Cole

Author:T.N. Cole [Cole, T.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

“I FEEL BAD THAT I left the dinner like that,” Kate told me when we stepped inside the house.

I grinned. “My mom loves you already. And she was only upset at how I was acting when you left.”

She still looked unsure, so I pulled her into her arms and tenderly kissed one side of her mouth, then the other, before covering her mouth with mine. She relaxed against me and looped her arms around my neck. I bent down and scooped her up in my arms so I could move us to the bedroom. Except, after one step, I almost slipped. My phone started vibrating incessantly. Who would be calling me at this time? “Tristan, what—” she trailed off when I reached to fish my phone out of my pocket. I had missed a call from a private number. I realized they had also sent three messages

Our eyes met and she slowly got down from my hold. I was frozen, unsure of what to do. Kate unlocked my phone. My eyes were focused on her hands hovering over the message icon, while hers watched my reaction.

She tapped her thumb and before she could open the texts, my hand shot out to still hers. My eyes looked at her pleadingly—asking for what, I wasn’t sure. But she seemed to understand what I needed. She stepped close to me so that our chests were touching. Kate pressed up on her tiptoes so she could brush her lips against mine. “It’s okay,” she assured me before she tapped the screen.

Kate slowly sifted through the three messages. There was a picture from earlier tonight when I picked Kate up. I was looking adoringly at a laughing Kate as I had helped her into the car. Then there was a picture of another newspaper clipping of the accident, with the headline, “Tristan Westdyke, 17, pushes Melanie Jessup, 17, in front of car?” The last blow was a text:

Does your Katelyn know that you’re a murderer, Tristan?

I took a step back from Kate, and I couldn’t look her in the eye. “Tristan…” Kate tried to step toward me. I shook my head, wordlessly telling her not to come closer, and backed up until I was against the wall in the hallway. That article wasn’t one of the ones published five years ago. Now someone was fabricating articles about the accident just to torture me?

I hadn’t realized that I had slid to the floor until Kate touched my arm. I opened my eyes and rolled my head sideways to look at her. She was kneeling on the ground next to me and her eyes shone with worry. “You’re not a murderer, Tristan,” she softly told me. I let her wrap her arms around me; I let her hold me in silence.

I was so fucking tired of all this. The guilt, the notes, the past. I just wanted to forget. I untangled myself from Kate and I stood. I held my hand out to her so I could help her up.

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