Silas by Sabrina Paige

Author:Sabrina Paige [Paige, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

“So you don’t think I’m crazy anymore, huh?” I leaned back in the chair, my arms crossed over my chest.

“Please.” Luke grinned at me. “You’re always going to be crazy, little brother. But I think your theory about mom’s death has some merit, at least.”

"Is that why you're sticking around in West Bend, Luke?" I probed. "Because you're interested in who might have had reason to want our parents dead?"

Luke's face reddened. I couldn't recall a time I'd ever seen Luke blush. I glanced across the room at Elias, who grinned.

"No," Elias said, crossing the room and pulling up a chair at the kitchen table. "There's a girl, isn't there?"

Luke shook his head. "I don't want to talk about it."

"Luke has a girlfriend," Elias said, his voice teasing. "Shit, I wish Killian were here. He would give you hell, man."

"Shut up, you assholes," Luke said.

"If he doesn't want to talk about it, leave him alone, Elias," I said, suddenly thinking about my reaction to Trigg when he asked about Tempest.

Elias studied me, his eyes narrowing. "What are you doing, taking up for him?" he asked. "You're usually the one to jump right on something like this."

"Yeah, well," I said. "Maybe he doesn't want to talk about it because it's someone who means something to him."

"Stop fucking talking about me like I'm not in the room, guys," Luke said. "I'm sitting right here."

But Elias ignored him, still staring at me. "Since when did you become Mr. Sensitive?" he asked. "Next thing you know, we're going to be sitting around talking about our feelings. Maybe we'll start crying, too."

"Shut up," I said. "You're the one mooning over River."

"Yeah, because it's River," he said. "Have you seen her?" He couldn't stop grinning, and I knew he was happy. It was good to see it.

"Why don't we talk about what we started with?" I said. "Stop getting off track. Our parents' deaths."

I could feel Elias' eyes still on me, but he relented. "Fine. I still maintain the entire idea they were murdered is ridiculous. Everyone wanted the asshole dead," he said, referring to our abusive drunk of a father. "If he were going to be murdered, it would have happened in a bar fight out in the open, not in the abandoned mine behind our house."

"Or one of us would have killed him," Luke said darkly. But if was true. The fact that one of us hadn't murdered him was itself a miracle. "I just think it doesn't make sense that she overdosed with pills and booze. She didn't even drink."

"Lots of things didn't make sense when it came to her," Elias said. "She was erratic. But what's that saying - the best explanation is the most direct one, right? That's the case here. Stop looking for complicated ways to make sense of things."

"Maybe you're right," I said half-heartedly. Elias was in this hazy honeymoon stage with River, and I was sure that was part of his reluctance to think about any of this.

I couldn't exactly blame him.

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