Third Time Lucky by Aurora Crane

Author:Aurora Crane [Crane, Aurora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

If Quinn kept looking at him like that, Grady was going to say something unpleasant to his partner. They’d stopped to have lunch at a café near where they’d been canvassing an area about a hit-and-run, and Quinn was about to be another victim.

“Just fucking spit it out, Quinn,” Grady growled, unable to take more staring.

“Spit what out?” Quinn asked innocently.

“What you want to say?” Grady pushed away his empty plate and picked up his coffee, cradling it in his hands. “You think I don’t know that you’re just chomping at the bit to say something? We’ve known each other too long, friend.”

Quinn stirred the spoon in his coffee, ignoring the crispy-chicken salad in front of him. “How is Lake?”

“He’s fine, he wasn’t hurt.” Despite knowing that fact, he’d stayed a little closer to Lake all night, and when Lake had curled into him on the couch while they watched a movie, he hadn’t said anything about it, just took the opportunity to have him close. The idea that the phone call could have been a different kind coming from Gideon… he didn’t want to think about it.

The kiss that Lake had laid on him was… something Grady was trying not to think too hard about. Lake was straight. Grady had no idea what Lake had been thinking when he’d made that move. Grady couldn’t work out why he’d done it, and Lake hadn’t really explained.

I just wanted to see.

Grady shifted uncomfortably in his seat.

“That’s good.”

“You’re still looking at me like that,” Grady pointed out, wanting to know how to make it stop.

“I’m not looking at you like anything; you’re being paranoid.”

Grady drained his coffee and slammed the mug down. “Quinn.”

Quinn just gave him a small smile. “Did you spend the night with him?”

“We’re just friends,” Grady said defensively, refusing to answer the question. Quinn already knew the answer anyway; it was why he was being such a smug asshole.

“Are you sure?”

“I think I would know if we were more than friends,” Grady said irritably. Maybe Grady had run away like a thief in the night when he’d woken up that morning before Lake, but Lake was the one being confusing, not him.

“Okay.”

“I would,” Grady insisted.

“I said okay,” Quinn said.

“And yet you’re still looking at me like that.” With that tiny smirk and the twinkle in his eye like he had a secret that no one else did. It made Grady want to punch something.

“You’re protesting a lot for someone who’s sure about it. You either know you’re lying, or you have a guilty conscience.”

“Partners don’t interrogate each other,” Grady grumbled.

“Something you need to get off your chest, Grady?”

Grady sighed and tipped his head back. “He kissed me,” he admitted. It didn’t feel much like a weight had lifted, which is supposedly what confessions were supposed to do.

“Lake?”

“Why are you acting like you’re surprised?” Grady asked, glowering at his partner. “You’re the one that was convinced something was going on.”

“I was convinced you were repressing something, not that something had happened, or that Lake had been the one to make the first move.

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