For a Good Time, Call by Anne Tenino

Author:Anne Tenino [Russell, Anne Tenino & E.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2017-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Seth was exhausted but wired when he finally left work that night. Well, morning, actually. He’d worked what was becoming his regular closing shift, which meant not getting out of Ma Cougar’s until at least one.

Thank God he had the next two days off. Maybe he could decide how to answer Nate’s text sometime in the next forty-eight hours.

Risking water damage to his phone, he pulled it out of his pocket just before turning into the driveway of Sentinel House to read it again. Nate had it right—tempers were running high because of the Beacon story—but Seth was having a hard time calling it a success. He stared at the glowing screen long enough that the words were nearly obscured by drops of drizzle.

“Excellent,” he muttered to himself, then wiped the phone off on the leg of his jeans and put it away before climbing the stairs to his place.

Once he was dry and in pajama pants, he threw himself onto his bed, snatching the remote out of the air when his body landed on the mattress and launched it high. Heh. He could unwind with an episode of his current British crime drama and maybe forget the scene at work with his family, and all of Shannon’s worried questions after. He’d told her next to nothing, mostly because he was just so fucking tired. Exhausted by his mother and uncle and their ongoing battle to make the whole world see things their twisted way.

God, and Kirk had said they’d discuss it more later. If only his fucking father would grow a pair and speak up. Assuming whatever the guy had to say would be supportive of Seth and Grandma’s position, and not Kirk and Debra’s. The jury was still out on that, and nothing that had happened this afternoon had given Seth any more of a clue.

Except he was almost certain his dad had been appalled by the idea that Fennimore had raped his maid. He had to realize that the master-servant relationship wasn’t okay even if Adeline had agreed to it.

Or maybe Seth wanted a reasonable parent so much he was hallucinating.

Give yourself a break. Thinking these things wouldn’t help him relax. He’d worry about future arguments with his family and how to answer that text in the morning.

Five minutes past the opening credits of Foyle’s War, he heard someone on his stairs. Not Grandma—her light had been off when he’d come home, plus the creaks and groans that warned him he was about to have a visitor were too loud. Whoever it was, their footsteps were too heavy to be his grandmother’s.

Good lord, was this what his uncle had meant by “discuss this later”?

Not wanting to answer the door in nothing but pajama pants, he’d managed to pull a sweatshirt on by the time whoever it was knocked, hesitantly. Definitely not Kirk.

Nate? The guy knew where he lived, after all . . . but wasn’t he at that final rehearsal Shannon had been going on about? She’d given him the impression it might run all night.

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