Skeleton's Key (Delta Crossroads Trilogy, Book 2) by Stacy Green

Author:Stacy Green [Green, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Twisted Minds Press
Published: 2013-10-14T07:00:00+00:00

19

He insisted on following Dani back to Magnolia House. It was the gentlemanly thing to do, Cage told her. He’d make sure she got inside safely, as if there were monsters hiding inside the old house.

Cage was fairly certain he just wanted to see her again.

But that made no sense. She came from a different world than he did, and she was everything he’d never been interested in. Dani was pretty enough but was too blond, too fair, with too many freckles on the bridge of her nose for his taste. And more bullheaded than any woman he’d ever met–including Jaymee.

Why couldn’t she trust the history he and Jaymee had given her? He supposed it was her academic nature, but Roselea’s hand-me-down stories were a source of pride for its residents–another Southern trait she was yet to fully understand. Instead of taking a hundred plus years of local teaching as fact, she’d needed an official government website for verification.

He didn’t understand her. But he couldn’t stop thinking about his dad’s comment, that Cage was jealous because he was interested in Dani.

His brain was murky, clogged with confusion. When he looked at Jaymee, he no longer felt sadness. Or jealousy. Even longing. He felt…guilt. But why should he? She was with Nick and had urged Cage to move on. He’d assumed that meant just accepting the two of them would never be together–that he would have to come to terms with the hollow ache that lived inside him. Go through life numb and consider that a win.

Somewhere between the old bones, the dead bodies, and the bullheaded Yankee woman, he was no longer desensitized. Energy had his body revved up in ways he’d nearly forgotten about, leaving him with the urge to pull Dani close. And Cage had no idea what to do.

He parked behind Dani’s rental and caught up with her on Magnolia House’s front steps. “How long do you have this thing for, anyway?”

“Two weeks,” Dani said. “Then I’ve got to fly back to Indianapolis, get the rest of my stuff, and drive back here in my own truck.”

“You have a truck?”

“You seem surprised.”

“You don’t really seem the type.”

“Maybe you misjudged me.” Standing above him on the top step, Dani looked straight into his eyes. Blood pulsed through him, leaving Cage dizzy and breathing harder than he needed to. Dani licked her lips, the uncertainty on her face matching the confusion clouding Cage’s head. He finally realized he should say something.

“Guess I did.”

Dani turned away, crossing the porch to the front door, breaking the tension. Cage shook his head to clear the fog.

An envelope was balanced precariously inside the screen door. Dani reached for it. “Don’t you all believe in mailboxes?”

“It’s at the end of the drive.” Chills broke out on Cage’s overheated skin. Dani’s name was carefully printed in blue marker across the middle of the envelope.

“It’s for me.” Worry crept into her voice. “Who would leave me something? Not very many people know I’m even here, let alone staying at Jaymee’s.

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