Over the Line: On the Run Novel by Lisa Desrochers

Author:Lisa Desrochers [Desrochers, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Oliver

“You’ve changed,” I say to Grant as he paces the window.

He turns and cuts me a smug smirk. “You haven’t.”

I never paid him much attention back in Chicago. It was widely known he wasn’t part of his father’s machine. He was a worthless club rat. A womanizing drunk. Not anyone I had any use for. But now, as he holds his sister’s gun on me, I see a determination in his eyes. A sense of purpose that I never remember seeing there before.

“I get that you want to protect your family. It’s admirable. But I’m not the enemy.”

He barks out a sardonic laugh as he turns to the window and peers out. “Seriously? That’s what you’re going with?”

“Do you miss Chicago?”

At my question, he turns back to me. “What does it matter? We’re not going back.”

I take the opportunity to study his face again. He’s definitely changed. Though he’s much rougher around the edges now, he’s grown up.

“Why are you so sure?”

He gives a loose shrug. “What’s there to go back to? It’s been six months.”

“Would you go back if you could?”

It doesn’t surprise me all that much when he just shrugs again. It’s the same indifferent reaction I got when I asked Lee if she was happy here. Neither of them seem too driven to get back home. They may not be happy, but they’re not miserable.

I don’t think Lee was happy in Chicago either, truth be told. At least not that she ever showed me.

There was only once I saw her truly happy.

It seemed trite to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the first time we hooked up in the library, so I didn’t mention the date as our plane took off out of Chicago. I’d graduated from Kellogg in June, but it was her last day of finals before winter break. We couldn’t spend Christmas away from our families, so I knew it was the last time I’d see her for a few weeks. I wanted her to myself for whatever time I could have her.

We stayed at my family’s vacation home in Aspen. I’d spent enough time there with my parents that people knew who I was, but they didn’t know Lee. For the first time in the year we’d been sleeping together, we had three days and two nights where we didn’t have to hide. Not even from my family. They knew I was in Aspen with a woman. Which meant they knew to leave me alone.

But from the moment our flight touched down, Lee was different. She took my hand as the pilot was maneuvering us to the Jetway. “Look. It’s snowing.”

“It was snowing in Chicago too,” I pointed out.

She shook her head and turned to stare out her window onto the dark tarmac. “Not like this. We’re skiing tomorrow.”

I stood from my first-class seat and retrieved her bag from the overhead compartment once the door was opened. “You ski?”

“It’s my favorite thing,” she said with a grin that lit her entire face.

I’d learned to ski when I was young.

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