The Deep of the Sound: A Bluewater Bay Novel by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2015-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

He knew better than to speed in the dark and the drizzle, and better than to rocket into the house making a fuss. No, Cal was going to spend all of his recklessness on something less spectacular and more painful than a car accident or another fight with Keir.

But Keir was asleep—as he always was this time of night—so Cal kept it down as he came in. Nascha sat serenely in the recliner, watching Inglourious Basterds, which figured because the old man had a hard-on for Tarantino that wouldn’t quit. Oddly enough, he was playing with some sort of tablet that Dottie had been bringing over for the last couple of days, and he seemed almost too engrossed to watch the movie. Dottie was stretched out on the couch, half dozing, but every now and then she’d emit a soft, hoarse chuckle of laughter.

They both looked up as Cal shut the door quietly behind him, and Dottie didn’t make much of an effort to move.

“Hey, Cal,” she said sleepily. “You’re home early.”

Cal chewed his lip and tried not to look at Nascha. “Actually, uhm . . .” He dug in his pocket for his tip money. One of the pluses of being so busy was that he’d made plenty of extra money over the last three nights—not nearly enough to cover his medical bills since he’d been laid up, but enough that taking a twenty out of the roll wasn’t going to make them short on food in the next week. “I’d sort of like to go out tonight,” he said, trying to make it casual. I’d sort of like to get laid, really. In fact, I sort of met a boy I really like, and if the world was perfect, I’d sort of like to get laid a lot, but the world’s not perfect so please take my twenty dollars and let me have my night.

Nascha cocked his head and smiled smugly. “Go out? You have someone to go out with?”

“Avery,” Cal said shortly. “You know, the guy we—”

“The guy you gave a ride to, that Keir thinks walks on water. Yes, Calladh—medication, remember?”

Cal took a deep breath. Yeah—meds. “So, Dottie, I can give you twenty now and twenty when I get home—but only if they get their meds, okay? The nurse is coming, but she hates driving in the rain and sometimes she gets here too late, so if you really can’t do it, let me know and I’ll be back before—”

“Cool your jets, cowboy,” Dottie muttered. “I hear you. Extra money if I let them pump poison into their bodies. Hey, it’s your family. You’ve got to live with your conscience!”

Yeah, well my conscience works better when I’m not terrified the two people left in my family might escape. “Okay,” Cal said out loud. “So you stay the night, and then the nurse will be here in the morning. I’ll be taking Keir out in the afternoon, so you probably don’t need to—”

“No, no,” Dottie said, her voice overly casual.

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