Dead Draw by Layla Reyne

Author:Layla Reyne [Reyne, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781737352457
Publisher: Layla Reyne

Fifteen

Levi sat at the kitchen island working and definitely not thinking about the man on the phone upstairs or how badly he still wanted to kiss him when David emerged from his cave. “Shouldn’t you be asleep?” Levi said with a pointed look at the glowing 12:45 a.m. on the oven clock.

“Just finished a book.” He grabbed a soda from the fridge. “Needed a drink.”

“Not that one this late.”

David pointedly eyed the soda next to Levi’s laptop, an eerily spot-on reflection.

“Touché.” Levi chuckled and closed his laptop. “Grab some cups, and I’ll split it with you.”

“I can live with that.” He grabbed two red cups and filled each with ice.

“Making headway on that summer reading list?” Levi asked.

“Slowly.”

“So not the book you were up late reading?”

“Definitely not.” Levi raised a brow, and he answered the unspoken question. “It was a book about chess. Strategies and stuff. Marsh gave it to me.”

Levi hid his pleased smile behind the lip of his cup. “But you are still reading the others?”

“When I can.” David circled the island and claimed the stool next to him. “Nicole’s a tyrant. Clean the yoga studio top to bottom, David.” His impression of his aunt was spot-on, right down to Nicole’s excited head bobble while she asked you to do the worst thing on her to-do list in the cheeriest voice possible. “Inventory supplies, kiddo. Update these billion spreadsheets I’ve fucked up beyond all reason.”

“Language,” Levi chided without much reproach. He could only imagine how shoddy his sister’s bookkeeping was. “She needs to hire someone.” He’d been telling Nicole that for over a year, ever since her studio was featured online by a prominent local celebrity, and its membership had soared.

“Maybe in the fall, when she no longer has me to do it on the cheap. Thank God I negotiated Fridays off.”

“It was the yoga studio or volunteer on base.”

“I’ll take my pennies of pay and Fridays off, thank you very much.”

“Hey now.” He nudged his son’s shoulder. “Your grandpa served, your grandma worked on base, your aunt and two uncles do now, and so did I as a kid.”

“The food and movies are cheap, and maybe I’d get upgraded to paid and it would be better than the studio, but”—he swirled the soda in his cup—“I might also look at some guy’s ass wrong and get beat.”

He said the last bit casually with a roll of his eyes, but it was far from a throw-away comment. Levi had to make sure David understood that. He set down his soda, removed David’s from his hand, and angled toward his son. “You’re always going to have to be careful regardless. That’s not the way it should be, but it’s the way it is. You know that, right?”

David nodded. “I know that, but I’m not gonna hide.”

“I’m not asking you too. That’d be awfully hypocritical.” Without thinking, he glanced up, toward the man in the office upstairs that he’d almost kissed. Twice.

When he lowered his gaze, David’s green one was assessing.

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