Montana Box Set 1 by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd
Published: 2024-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

At some point in the night, the bed became less about sharing and comfort and more about being wrapped around Ethan so tight that Adam thought Ethan might complain.

What woke him up he didn’t know, a pain, maybe, or a dream that wasn’t quite a nightmare. Whatever it was, when he woke sprawled over Ethan and realized that Ethan was holding him tight, he extricated himself as gently as possible.

“What’s wrong?” Ethan mumbled, reaching for Adam, but he wasn’t entirely awake.

Adam wasn’t sure what to do or say, so he just patted Ethan’s arm and watched as Ethan rolled over and hugged his pillow. Adam padded out to the kitchen and stretched a little, stopping just before it hurt. Armed with a glass of water and Ethan’s phone that had been left on the side table, Adam sat on the sofa and scrolled to the app for the Internet. Ethan had said it was okay for him to use it, and there were actually some things he wanted to look up.

“Man. Missing. Disappeared. Work. Horses.” He spoke the words out loud as he typed them in. That seemed like a lot of keywords—he huffed as he realized he even knew what a keyword was.

Fucking broken brain.

The top search was to a Wikipedia page entitled “List of People Who Disappeared Mysteriously.” His finger hovered over the entry, but that was going to be about unexplained people who vanished with UFOs and stuff like that. Adam didn’t get the feeling he’d been abducted by aliens; there was a much more earthly reason about where he’d vanished to.

What if he’d been in prison?

Dread gripped him only so long as it took him to realize that if he’d been in prison, his prints would be in the system and Ethan would have been able to track down where he’d been.

A couple of articles down was a news item from a Canadian newspaper. Adam read the title out loud to delay clicking the link. “Man Missing for 30 Years Solves His Own Disappearance After Suddenly Remembering Who He Is.”

Thirty years? What if that was it—he made a life at Crooked Tree and then abruptly recalled he had a whole other life? That didn’t bear thinking about; he couldn’t start a new life until he’d solved the existence of the previous one.

He clicked the link and scanned the item. The guy at the center of it, folks thought he’d gone to Niagara Falls to kill himself, but he’d hit his head and lost all his memories, then spent thirty years as another person before abruptly recalling everything from before he was twenty-one.

How? How can someone just vanish like that?

“Is that what I did?” he murmured to the empty room.

Did I try to commit suicide?

“Adam?”

Ethan’s sleepy voice interrupted the awful train of thought and surprised Adam so much that the phone flew from his hand and slid to the floor. He leaned over to pick it up, wincing at the pain in his chest. “Hey,” he said, standing, the phone clutched in his hand.

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