Prison Break 02 - Tempting Evil by Allison Brennan

Author:Allison Brennan [Brennan, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Suspense Fiction, General, Blizzards, Widows, Sheriffs - Montana, Montana, Women Novelists
ISBN: 9780345502728
Google: KYGrYdmwbxsC
Amazon: 0345502728
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008-05-20T05:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

Jason told Deputy Duncan that he couldn’t sleep and was going to get something to eat.

He’d heard every word Jo and her sister said.

He left the suite of rooms and walked to the main lodge kitchen. He’d hated Montana when they first moved here. There was nothing to do. His Internet connection kept getting kicked off, television was on satellites that half the time didn’t work because of the mountains, and there was no movie theater in Dillon. They had to drive an hour just to see a stupid movie. In Dallas, even though they were in the suburbs, there was a ten-screened theater ten minutes in one direction, fifteen in the other.

But there was something about this place that he had grown to like. Like he was home.

Stupid thought, he knew. He’d never been here before, and when his dad told him they were moving to Montana he pitched a fit. He hadn’t wanted to come. He didn’t want to do anything, really, because life had gotten so complicated after his mother divorced his dad and moved him to San Diego.

Then she got sick and brought him back. Died while Jason sat there holding her hand. She’d been so beautiful once, but the cancer ate her from the inside out and she was nothing but a hollow shell of the mother he knew. She hadn’t been perfect, but she’d loved him. And Jason would always remember that.

Moving to Montana seemed like running away from memories of his mom, and he didn’t want to do it. But he didn’t like Dallas and had no one to turn to, no one but a dad he barely knew. He liked the beaches in San Diego, but he didn’t like the kids who teased him about his Texas twang so cruelly that he’d worked hard to lose it.

He’d hated his dad for a long time. Why hadn’t he visited more often? Why hadn’t he let Jason come home?

He knew the truth now, though his dad didn’t think he knew anything. His dad thought Jason didn’t pay attention, that when he was into his video games his ears suddenly stopped working.

Not ever.

He wanted to make his father happy, and he didn’t know how. But he knew he couldn’t make him worry, not like he did after his mom died and his dad thought he was depressed.

“You, um, want to talk to someone?” Dad had asked one night after Jason got up at three a.m. Apparently neither of them had slept well in the months after Sharon McBride died.

“No,” he said.

“Well, let me know. You can talk to me, or,” he said quickly, “anyone you want.”

Jason hadn’t wanted to talk to anyone but his mom, to find out answers to questions only she knew, but she was dead.

Jason opened the refrigerator, looked around. He really wasn’t that hungry. He closed it and jumped at a voice.

“Hi, Jason.”

There was a small light next to the stove. Jo Sutton walked into the kitchen and asked, “Can I get you anything?”

“Naw.

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