Dead Serious (Cold Case Psychic Book 28) by Pandora Pine

Author:Pandora Pine [Pine, Pandora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

12

Tennyson

The scent of margaritas hit Ten in the face when he and Ronan walked into Casa Blanco. Ten had never been much of a drinker before he and Ronan met, but with everything going on in the Sebastian Stark case and now with Corny Craig, he could go for a stiff one. He wouldn’t, not with Ronan with him. Ten would just have to find another way to relax.

“Over there.” Ronan pointed to a table in the back.

Ten couldn’t help looking at the food on the tables they passed. The fajitas had looked good until he saw someone with enchiladas. Then the chimichangas grabbed his attention. Maybe Ronan would get those, and they could share. He supposed the way he was going to relax tonight was with good food, which Ten absolutely deserved if his conversation with Corny didn’t make him choke first.

“Tennyson, Ronan, how nice of you to join us.” Corny stood, welcoming them to the table. “What the fuck is he doing here?” Corny barked out when he spotted Fitzgibbon.

“You’re going to want to hear what he has to say.” Ten took a seat across the table. Ronan sat beside him. Fitzgibbon dragged another table next to theirs, sitting on the same side as Ten.

Ten grabbed a menu and busied himself with trying to narrow down what he wanted to eat. When the waitress came by, Ten ordered the enchiladas, with Ronan and Fitz getting tacos. Beef for Ronan and chicken for Fitz. Corny and Destiny ordered fajitas, along with another margarita for himself.

“What did you want to speak with me about?” Ten asked after the waitress delivered his raspberry iced tea.

Corny took a long sip from the fishbowl his drink had come in before making eye contact with Tennyson. “I don’t want to die.” There was emotion in his voice Ten hadn’t expected. “I’m newly married, with a baby girl on the way. I want to be there for my family for the long haul.”

As Ten listened to Corny’s impassioned speech, he knew the man was telling the truth. He also knew this was the most honest he’d ever been in his life, but time would tell if the trend continued. “Both families? Or just the new one?”

“This family, for a start.” Corny set a hand on Destiny’s baby bump. “My sons don’t want anything to do with me.”

There were a lot of ways Ten could respond to that question. At the top of the list was, “Do you blame them?” He swallowed that response, for now. “As things sit at the moment, you’re right when it comes to Carson and Cole.”

“I’ve been a fuckup my entire life. My father taught me how to be a pickpocket when I was seven years old. We’d practice at county fairs all over the South. He taught me how to hot-wire cars and steal prescription pads from doctors. We wrote bad checks, stole money from fundraising buckets. You name it, he taught me not just how to do it but do it well enough not to get caught.

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