Ready to Roll by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Thriller, Fiction
ISBN: 9780986328428
Publisher: Suzanne Brockmann Books
Published: 2016-10-03T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Thursday

“What the goddamn fuck did you do, asshole?!” Wade’s voice, over the phone, was an odd mix of rage and panic—made even weirder by the fact that he was whispering.

Ben had just stepped out of the shower at Danny and Jenn’s house, and he now reached for his towel, attempting to figure out what Wade had thought he’d done even as he tried to not drip onto his phone.

He guessed, “I took a nap when I got home from the hospital, instead of calling you?” Danny and Jenn still hadn’t brought Colin home, but the baby was doing well enough earlier this morning that Eden had dropped Ben off on her way into work. The plan was for Ben to be here for backup baby-care when the exhausted trio finally arrived.

Still, a quick scan of his phone confirmed that he’d had no long list of missed calls from Wade. So that probably wasn’t it.

“You fucking told Ryan,” Wade whispered from between clenched teeth as Ben saw that he did have a slew of missed texts—from Ryan.

Where are you?

And We need to talk!!

And I’m going crazy over here!!!!!

I can’t stand this any longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“He’s on his way over,” Wade hissed. “Right fucking now!”

“To your house?” Ben asked, grabbing his jeans and T-shirt.

“Yes, to my house,” Wade said.

“Oh, shit.” Ben wasn’t quite dry, but he pulled his clothes on anyway.

“Oh, shit,” Wade mimicked him. “What did you think was gonna happen when you told him, douche-wipe?”

“I don’t think douche-wipe’s a real thing,” he started to say, but instead went with, “I haven’t spoken to Ryan since Tuesday. He texted me a bunch of times while I was over at the hospital, asking for an update, but I didn’t see ’em until right now.”

Wade was insistent. “You must’ve said something—”

Ben cut him off. Arguing about who was to blame wasn’t going to help. “Is Cody still home?” he asked.

“Yes,” Wade whispered. “But he’s getting ready to go to work, and I think he’s really going this time. But if Ryan shows up…”

Yup. Ben had a solid idea of the not-goodness of that scenario. “Okay,” he told Wade as he grabbed his sneakers and headed for the kitchen. He hadn’t eaten in a while, so he had to stuff something in his mouth before he took off. Particularly since he was home alone—and that meant he was going to be riding a bicycle over to Wade’s. “Get in front of it,” he said through a mouthful of cornflakes and milk. “Solidly. Tell Cody—right now, before Ryan gets there—that the school is sending someone over to, um, tutor you. Some stupid kid who wants to win his community service badge.”

“What the goddamn fuck is a community service badge?” Wade whispered.

“The student council gives them out to the honor students.” Ben drank the last of the milk from his bowl as he jammed some extra power bars into his pockets and took one of the small plastic bottles of OJ from the fridge. Danny and Jenn bought the single-serve size for exactly this reason.

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