By Fire 4 - Heat Under Fire by Andrew Grey

Author:Andrew Grey [Grey, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-02T14:12:33+00:00

Chapter 4

CARS once again passed in front of Justin’s patrol car, and he’d never been so happy for it. He was ready to go back to work, although getting out of Rock’s bed to go home and change before his shift had been hard as hell. He and Rock had thoroughly worn each other out, coming at least three times before turning in, and Justin had fallen asleep almost as soon as they’d showered and Rock had pulled him close. He’d held Justin the entire night. Justin had never been able to sleep with anyone else. Even as a teenager on school trips and in college, he’d always had to have the bed to himself or he’d spend the night nervously staring at the ceiling. That hadn’t been the case with Rock.

His phone ringing pulled him out of his thoughts, and without taking his eyes off the road in front of him, he picked up the phone and placed it to his ear.

“Justin, it’s Chrissy,” his oldest sister said.

“Morning,” he told her with a smile.

“You’re in a good mood,” she observed.

“Yup, and I’m not going to let anything spoil it,” he said without thinking, and that was his first mistake.

“Well, Mother is extremely upset, and frankly, so am I,” Chrissy said. “That little display in the hospital was totally unnecessary.”

Justin kept his cool, refusing to let her upset him. “I didn’t have anything to do with that. Rock got a little carried away. He wasn’t too happy about the way Mom was treating me.” Warmth spread through him as he thought of Rock.

“Mom came to the hospital to make sure you were all right because she cares about you. She returned and hasn’t left the house since. She’s so upset, she wouldn’t answer the phone, and I had to go over and check up on her.” She whined like going to Mom’s was a huge imposition rather than something she did anyway so they could talk about everything and nothing. Not that Justin wanted to go to his mother’s for afternoon coffee like his sisters did, but still, it would have been nice if his mother made an effort toward some activity that included him. “I found Mom sitting in her sunroom staring out at the backyard. She was traumatized, Justin,” his sister added, pulling him out of his ruminations.

Justin sighed and rolled his eyes. “Don’t be dramatic,” Justin said. He was beginning to get a little tired of the over-the-top emotions that seemed to run through his mother and sisters.

“I’m not. Lynanne feels the same way,” Chrissy said, as though their middle sister was any less dramatic or manipulative. “You need to go see her and apologize at the very least, and you need to go alone, without… the man you were kissing.” Chrissy sounded like she’d just eaten a bad shrimp but couldn’t spit it out, and Justin could imagine her narrow face contorted in distaste.

“I work all week, and I have to take it easy because of my lungs,” Justin explained.

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