Teach Me Like That (LMLT Book 2) by Marie James

Author:Marie James [James, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: none
Publisher: self
Published: 2016-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Kegan

I couldn’t tell you why I kissed her before I left, but even with the anger coursing through my veins, I knew I couldn’t leave without doing it. Call it instinct, need, or ownership. I have no idea, but my nerves calmed a fraction when my lips met her skin.

Just a fraction, though, because I don’t do lies. I don’t do complicated, and after hearing what her mother said, this situation is nothing if not complicated.

She told me her parents were dead. She never mentioned having a baby. I struggle with faulting her with that omission. We don’t have a relationship. We fucked. We had sex. Amazing, mind-blowing, incredible sex, but sex nonetheless.

There are things about me she doesn’t know. Things no one knows. I know it’s shitty of me to be angry about her past, but the lie about her parents… that’s not okay on any level.

She tells everyone that.

Her mother’s words ring in my ears. So she’s what? Embarrassed. Hell, after meeting Cindy, I can see why. That woman is a train wreck and a half. I hated leaving Lexi there to fend for herself, but I’d say things I’d regret if I stayed.

I make it to my house in record time. The only thing I have on my mind right now is researching her grandparents to see if she lied about their deaths also. At this point, I don’t know what’s been the truth and what has been lies.

I fire up my computer a second after walking through the door. I carry the laptop to the kitchen for a bottle of water, then settle on the couch with it on my lap. I type her name and ‘car accident’ into the search engine. The results populate immediately.

My eyes land on a newspaper headline “College Graduate Sole Survivor in Fatal Drunk Driving Crash.”

My hand shakes as it hovers over the link. I close my eyes and pray that this isn’t the accident my uncle Scott was involved in. My anger at her lies suddenly dissipates when I realize that my drunken uncle, who killed three people while driving drunk three years ago, could be the one who murdered her family.

I swallow roughly and click on the link. I begin to read the article:

A drunk driver claimed the lives of two people this morning after a wrong-way collision on Interstate 90. Clive and Mona Carter were pronounced dead at the scene. Jake Bellows, of Orchard Prairie…

I breathe a sigh of relief. Everyone, me included, feels enough guilt over not doing something about Scott’s drinking. I couldn’t handle it if he was the one who ended her grandparents’ lives. I continue reading.

…walked away from the scene with minor injuries and a blood alcohol content of 0.14, nearly twice the legal limit. An unidentified female, wearing a graduation gown, was pulled from the wreckage and transported to an area hospital. More updates to come.

I scrub my hand down my face and close the lid to my laptop. I can’t read any more than what I’ve already seen.

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