Into the Blackness (Blackness Series Book 4) by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

Author:Norma Jeanne Karlsson [Karlsson, Norma Jeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic thriller, contemporary romance, romantic suspense
Publisher: It's Publishing
Published: 2014-08-05T04:00:00+00:00

Nick

I stride into the house to be met with a kitchen full of teenagers. Not that unusual these days.

“Hey, Nick,” Sawyer says gloomily.

“What’s up?” I ask the solemn group.

“Aunt Kay has a headache again,” Dane informs me with a grunt finishing off his statement.

“Any plans for dinner?” I avoid the topic of my wife, just as I’ve been doing for almost three weeks. None of the boys have asked outright what’s going on, but I’ve gotten a lot of looks and grunts.

“We burned it,” Sawyer responds, nodding at a plate covered in something charred beyond recognition.

“Let’s go out for pizza. Give Kat a break from us for the evening.”

“She needs a lot of breaks lately,” Cole points out as he shrugs on his coat.

“That’s how it goes sometimes, bud.” I clap him on the back a couple times trying to reassure him.

“I know,” he scoffs, moving out of my reach.

The SUV is silent as I maneuver through the snow-covered streets of Maybelle. Downtown is dripping in twinkle lights, wreathes adorning every door. This place is like a poison dart frog, beautifully captivating and filled with venom.

After we’re seated at a booth, the mood lightens slightly. The boys are dealing with the aftermath of breaking up with Regan and her posse. Things were strained between the two groups after the incident with Avery and Cole. He ended it with her instantly. Once Jake connected with Cara he immediately ended things with Regan. Dane and Sawyer followed suit a few days later with their girls. I never knew what it meant for someone to blow up a phone. I’m now intimately acquainted with the term and its visual representation.

Jake’s phone buzzes for the fifteenth time when he rips it off the table, turns it off and shoves it in his coat pocket.

“How hard is ‘I’m done’ to understand?” he grumbles.

“Apparently, pretty fuckin’ difficult,” Sawyer mumbles around his straw.

“Women can be difficult to understand,” I chime in with pathetic words of wisdom.

“You’ve got the best lookin’ wife in this town and probably on the eastern seaboard. Not only that, but Aunt Kay’s awesome. She isn’t nuts like most chicks,” Dane scoffs.

“Kat’s an amazing woman, no question. But figuring out how a woman works takes patience and teenagers aren’t great at that. I know. I was one.”

“Like two decades ago,” Dane teases me.

I give him a hard stare causing the group to burst out laughing. I love that sound. It warms me when I feel empty and cold. I feel like that most of the time now. I wasn’t lying when I said women are difficult to understand. I wish I didn’t understand why Kat’s done with me. Unfortunately, I do. I fucked this thing up so badly I’m not certain there’s a way back. The last time I messed up with her, I pushed and prodded her. This time I’m leaving her alone. Kat’s hanging on by a thread and I refuse to be the thing that snaps the string.

Watching her struggle to get through the heartbreak I’ve caused is torture I’m unfamiliar with.

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