Gold Star Heart by Stormy Glenn

Author:Stormy Glenn [Glenn, Stormy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781642430776
Published: 2018-02-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Eddie smiled at him and then grabbed his hand. “It’ll be okay, Cary. I promise.”

He couldn’t promise that and Cary knew it, but he appreciated the gesture. Still, having Eddie by his side made Cary feel a whole lot better. It gave him a bit of the courage he was having so much trouble dredging up on his own.

Maybe it was the badge?

Cary drew in a big breath and then nodded to Eddie. He gripped Eddie’s hand tightly and followed him out to the living room, where two men stood, one much larger than the other one. Incredibly larger than the other one.

For a moment, Cary’s fear flared up, nearly choking him. Cary wasn’t actually sure he had ever seen a man so big. This guy looked as if he ate tractors for breakfast.

“Cary,” Eddie said in a soothing voice, almost as if he understood how freaked out Cary was feeling. “I’m right here.”

Cary swallowed tightly and nodded.

“Why don’t we all sit down?” Eddie asked as he waved his hand toward the couch and love seat. Cary waited for Cory and his friend to take the couch before moving to sit on the love seat with Eddie. He clutched at the hand Eddie laid on his thigh, desperately needing the lifeline.

“I know you wanted a chance to talk to Cory,” Eddie said, “and the sheriff felt the situation was dire enough to warn him Martin was in town and might seek him out. He didn’t tell Cory why you wanted to meet with him.”

Cary’s head snapped around. “He doesn’t know?”

Eddie shook his head.

How could he not know?

“Know what?” one of the two men asked.

Cary slowly turned to look. It was Cory. There was such confusion in his eyes…eyes Cary saw every time he looked into the mirror. “I’m Cary.”

Cory’s forehead puckered as he frowned. “I don’t…”

“Do you remember me?” Cary asked.

“Who are you?”

“I’m Cary, Cary James. I’m your brother. We’re twins.”

Cory paled as he started shaking his head. “No, she said…she told me that you were a figment of my imagination, my imaginary friend. She said I shouldn’t talk about you because you weren’t real.”

Cary wanted to growl, but he didn’t. Cory seemed frightened enough as it was. “Who said?”

“My grandmother,” Cory replied.

Cary had no idea why she would say that. “I’m not a figment of your imagination. I’m very real.”

“How?”

“Mom was a little…off.” That was a polite way of saying she was batshit crazy.

Cory’s eyebrows rose. “Was?”

“Oh, she…uh…passed away recently, and I’ll tell you about that, but first, do you know how you ended up at Grandma’s place? Was any of that ever explained to you?”

“She always told me my mom dropped me off one day and never came back.”

“That’s basically what happened. We were barely out of diapers at the time. Like I said, Mom was always a little off, always looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Her head was always in the clouds and not on raising two kids.”

“What happened?” Cory asked.

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