Losing an Edge by Gayle Catherine

Author:Gayle, Catherine [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2016-02-25T08:00:00+00:00

HARRY AND ONE of the team’s coaches were on their way out of the courthouse across the street from the police station Cam and I were heading into. Cam slowed and called out to them.

“So Webs got you all sorted out?”

Harry nodded and ducked his head. With the way Webs was glaring at him, I didn’t blame him. They went on their way, and we went on ours.

Three hours later, Cam and I left the police station with an emergency protective order against Guy, the promise that they’d serve him notice, and a court date in two weeks to have it finalized.

“Doesn’t this seem like a bit much to you?” I asked Cam as we climbed back into his truck to head home.

My brother gave me one of his patented you’ve-got-to-be-shitting-me looks and backed out of his parking spot.

We’d listed Cam, Sara, and the kids on the order, as well as the address for the house, the rink, and even the Moda Center, since they were all places I tended to spend a lot of time. When the officer had asked about a significant other, I’d hesitated for a moment. Cam had cut in and given Levi’s name.

It had been eating me alive ever since.

“Why did you tell them Levi is my significant other?”

“That son of a bitch threatened him, too, didn’t he?”

I supposed that was a fair point, but that didn’t make Levi my significant other. He might want to be, but that didn’t mean he was. After that, I bit my tongue the rest of the way home.

When we got there, Cam gave Sara a copy of the protective order and put another on the fridge. “Be sure you’ve always got that with you,” he said. Then he picked up Connor and stalked off to the backyard with Buster yapping and chasing after them.

Once they were gone, it was only the two of us. Sara went into the kitchen to clean up from Connor’s snack, so I followed to help her out.

“Cassidy’s sleeping?” I asked.

“Mm hmm.” She shoved a couple of plastic bowls into the dishwasher rack with more force than necessary.

She was mad at me. And she had a right to be mad, in all honesty. I’d made her promise to keep a secret from my brother, and it had turned out to be a much bigger, more harmful secret than I’d anticipated. He’d barely said a word to either one of us today. I’d had to fill Sara in on what had gone down at the hospital this morning, before we’d left for the police station.

I took a rag from the sink to wipe down the table. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I should never have asked you to—”

“You had every right to ask me for a favor. Don’t go there, Cadence. You and Chloe and Corinne—you’re always telling me I’m one of your sisters now, right? And that’s something sisters do. They help each other out.”

“But it wasn’t fair of me.”

“Bullshit.” She slammed one of Cassidy’s sippy cups into the rack.

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