Past, Present by AJ Lange

Author:AJ Lange [Lange, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wish House Publishing Co.
Published: 2019-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

It was absolutely true, Zane would reflect much later, how the majority of people never thought it would happen to them. They read about disasters and tragedies in the newspaper, or sat glued to the television, horrified but removed. Distant. Terrible things were always remote, never touching most people’s lives.

Zane was not most people.

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Tanner scanned the bar, nodding at Lily when she caught his eye. “Zane,” he mouthed in question.

Lily inclined her head toward the kitchen, brow furrowing at Tanner’s solemn expression. Tanner pushed through the kitchen door, calling his brother’s name.

“In here.” Zane’s voice was muffled over the roar of the freezer fan. He appeared seconds later slamming the cooler door shut behind him. “Fuck, it’s cold in there.” He rubbed his hands together, bringing them to his lips to blow warmth over his frozen fingers. He stilled when he saw Tanner’s face. “What.”

“Where’s your phone?” Tanner’s face was pinched, serious, and Zane’s gut dropped, dread sinking into his bones.

“I forgot it at home this morning. What’s going on, Tanner?”

Tanner shook his head, mouth opening and closing. He stepped forward to grip Zane’s arm. “Gray has been in an accident.”

Zane’s ears buzzed, all of the sound leeching from the room until there was only the roar of the blood in his veins as it rushed to his head. He felt Tanner’s fingers tighten around his bicep and he winced. “Where is he?” Zane was shocked at how normal his voice sounded, steady, strong. He shook Tanner’s arm off, looking to the kitchen door when Lily stepped through. She whitened at their faces.

“What is it?”

Zane shook his head, unable to answer her, head reeling. His phone. His goddamn phone. He hadn’t spoken to Gray since that morning, when he had kissed him goodbye at the door, a slow, lazy play of lips, as if they had all the time in the world.

They were supposed to have all the time in the world.

Tanner stepped back into Zane’s vision, blocking him from the kitchen door. “He’s at Mercy Hospital. He was on the interstate, there was a ten-car pileup. A semi jackknifed. Harry called my office when he couldn’t get you on your cell,” Tanner paused, sorrow in his eyes. “Zane, it’s...it’s not good.”

“I’m going,” Zane said, shoving past him, not wanting to hear more.

“I’ll drive.” Lily reached for the keys and damn Zane’s rotten life but they were both blocking the kitchen door now, and he was desperate, frantic to get to Gray. He thrust the keys at her.

“Close the bar, Tanner.” Zane was out of the kitchen and across the bar in seconds, finally in motion, propelled forward by fear.

Tanner pulled Lily into a quick embrace. “Drive careful. I’ll be there as soon as I can.”

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