Then There Was You by D L Lane

Author:D L Lane
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Forget Me Not Romances, an imprint of Winged Publications
Published: 2020-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Before

Getting out of his rental car, Gage tossed his backpack over his shoulder and walked to the front of the home he grew up in, a thousand pounds of unseen weight holding him down. After his graduation from Quantico, he thought he would save the world; only the world had other things to say about that. It had been a rough couple of years, and even a harsher six months.

Twirling his keyring around his finger, he focused on the jangle, trying not to think about what he’d left behind in California, but failing. He and his partner had been working on a particularly gruesome serial murder case, which ended when they had enough evidence to arrest their suspect, but they were too late. Entering the fancy Brentwood home was like walking into a horror scene from a movie. This psycho had killed his entire family, placing them in different states of repose around the house—his father at the workbench in the garage, his mother in a rocking chair with knitting in her lap, the wife in the bathtub as if she’d fallen asleep while bathing, and his three children... Gage couldn’t think about those kids, the oldest twelve, the youngest only four. The killer had displayed them all like dolls, then took his own life when he was done, with a bullet to the head.

Sucking in a deep breath of fresh air, Gage unlocked the door and stepped inside, then punched in the code on the alarm. He knew his parents had taken a long overdue vacation, so even though they weren’t home, he was glad to be there. He needed the quiet time in a familiar place filled with good memories to help clear the clutter of nasty in his mind. Coming home for a few days seemed like the thing to do.

“Sonoma?” he called, but the housekeeper didn’t answer, so she must be out.

Going up the stairs, looking forward to being in his old room, the bell tones of his cell made him stop on the landing, pull out his phone and look at the number on the screen. Letting his backpack slip off his arm and land by his foot in a thump, he answered the call.

“Hi, Jenny. Is everything okay with Justin?”

“No,” she said and sniffed.

The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end. “What’s wrong?”

“For some reason, he decided to climb the trellis on the side of the house and fell. He busted up his leg, and the doctor is talking about surgery to put a pin in it.”

“Are you at the hospital now?”

“Yes,” she whispered.

“Which one?”

“Harborview.”

“I’ll be there as soon as I can.”

“Soon?”

“I’m in Cedar Point. It won’t take me long.”

“Oh!” She sounded relieved. “Gage, thank you.”

“Nothing to thank me for, Jenny. You and Justin need me, so hang tight. I’m on my way.”

~

“Thank you for having lunch with me,” Marcus said, his handsome face highlighted by the summer sun streaming in the wall of windows.

Danica placed her palm on his chest, over his name embroidered into his white coat.

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