The Dark Tide by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]
Language: nld
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Sad,” I said. “Ten years.”

“Things change.”

I threw him a quick look; his face was impassive behind the sunglasses. His cop face.

The door to the café was white now, but beneath the milky white was a blue shadow. We

went inside, went up the short flight of steps to a big room remarkable for the enormous

windows looking out over the ocean. There were a number of plastic chairs and tables though

only one other couple was eating lunch—and complaining about the food, if I read their

expressions correctly.

I recognized the old decor—what was left of it—from the photos I'd seen on the Web. The

zigzagging wood inlays and wavy wrought-iron handrails were long gone, but the blue-and-gray-

tiled mosaics of the sea still adorned the long walls, and the ceiling was covered in the remnants

of grimy, dust-coated latticework meant to counterfeit fishing nets.

A skinny, leathered woman in shorts, halter top, and flip-flops took our order. I ordered

grilled cheese and asked to substitute the fries for a piece of fruit. Her expression was priceless.

Jake ordered the fishwich.

I stared out the big picture windows at the boats dotting the blue water.

“Thanks,” I said to Jake.

He smiled back, that wry grimace. I thought of Guy's comment about Jake's humoring me.

I thought Guy probably had a point. But in certain ways Jake had been humoring me for as long

as I'd known him. Maybe not when he'd suspected me of murder; certainly from our time at Pine

Shadow Ranch. For such a hard ass, he had always been strangely indulgent with me.

Lunch arrived on paper plates. We dug in.

“How's the fishwich?” I inquired.

“Old. How's the grilled cheese?”

“It's hard to go wrong with grilled cheese.”

He nodded.

“But somehow they've managed.”

He laughed.

The play of sun on the water was almost hypnotic. It glowed softly against the old dance

floor. I really had to get over my desire to sleep all the time. I glanced at Jake and caught him

studying me.

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