They All Had A Fear: A past. A debt. A reckoning. A murder. (They All Had A Reason. Book 3) by Michele Leathers

Author:Michele Leathers [Leathers, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: EMAR Publishing
Published: 2021-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Winter

Hunter’s house was thick with darkness and smelled like bleach. I searched along the walls for light switches and turned them on as we passed through the family room and the living room. His house was decorated like a typical beach house: blue furniture, flooring the color of the sand, decorative sea shells, pictures of the ocean hanging on the walls. It was bright and cheerful.

I followed him up the stairs, and we entered a large game room. There was a pool table, a foosball table, a Skee-Ball arcade game, a wet bar, and an enormous flat screen TV, much bigger than the TV at my house.

“Wow,” I said. “Is this your man cave?”

“The house was already furnished when I moved in.”

I walked over to the foosball table and gave the handle a spin. “The only thing that seems to be missing is a bowling alley.”

Hunter sat down on the brown leather sectional and reclined his seat back. Max found a spot on the floor below him.

I was still wondering how he was able to find his way around outside tonight without Max or his cane. Maybe Hunter really wasn’t blind. “I was looking for you out on the beach,” I said as I surveyed Hunter’s face, waiting for his reaction. “I headed in the same direction that you went, but it was like you vanished into thin air. Where did you go?”

He shrugged, his expression blank. “We must have just missed each other somehow.”

I really wanted to know what he was doing out there, and where he had gone. When did he bring Max back to his house? Why? “I walked all the way to the pier. I didn’t see you anywhere.”

Hunter’s eyes shifted, missing mine and his brows furrowed. “You shouldn’t go down to the pier late at night by yourself. It’s not safe.”

“What’s wrong with going to the pier?”

“There are some people who hang out down there that you don’t want to get involved with. Trust me.” He laced his fingers behind his head and crossed his ankles.

I thought about that fight Nevin got into. Was Hunter talking about Nevin? But Nevin worked for him. Why would he warn me about someone he trusted enough to help him on a daily basis? Maybe he was referring to Jaxson, or maybe he was talking about another group of people. “I saw Nevin and Jaxson down at the pier. Do you know Jaxson?”

Hunter suddenly sat forward. A deep crease appeared between his eyebrows. “Nevin was there?"

"Yeah. He got into a fight. He almost threw some guy off the pier. He held him by his legs, dangling him over the railing, about to drop him into the ocean, then he told Jaxson to pull his shoes off and throw them in the ocean. He eventually pulled the guy back up, and then he knocked him to the ground.”

Hunter shifted in his seat, his jaw tensed. “I’m gonna have a talk with Nevin. He knows better than to hang out with them.

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