Haven Investigations Boxset Books 1-4 by Lissa Kasey

Author:Lissa Kasey [Kasey, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lissa Kasey
Published: 2020-01-11T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

“I thought I had a big family, but at least we were all born years apart. Someone should have told Kade’s dad to get the fuck off his mom. It’s like one every other year,” Jacob grumbled from the passenger seat as he reviewed information on my tablet. “And why are they all like hipster names? Peyton, Skyler, Madison, Kade, Ashlyn, Xander? Kade is the most normal name of the lot. Do you know how much shit I’d give you if you dated a guy named Peyton?”

“Peyton and Ashlyn are his sisters. Skyler, Madison, and Xander are his brothers.”

“Skyler and Madison? Are you shitting me?”

I didn’t shake my head because I had a headache. So far it was mild, but I knew eventually it would become unbearable. “He’s not close to any of them. Never was.”

“He’s the middle kid, though.”

“They institutionalized him several times. I think that’s enough to put anyone off people.”

“I can’t believe Kade is okay with you having this much info on him. And who decides an eleven-year-old is mentally disturbed? I can’t picture Kade torturing animals or burning down buildings.” Jacob had been digging through my extensive file on Kade for several hours. Reading everything he could, searching for more on the Internet, and making notes about Kade’s family. “And why just him? I’m not seeing anything that says any of the other kids were ever treated like he was. The rest of them were prep school and piano lessons.”

That was a fact I found odd as well. Why had Kade been singled out? It couldn’t have been because he’s gay. Even now very few people would know he was gay unless they ran into us kissing or holding hands. Somehow I didn’t think as an eleven-year-old Kade had been so flaming gay his parents had decided to throw him in an institution. The attitude could be faked, but Kade just came across as the typical straight guy. Sure he was a little more in touch with reality than most heterosexual guys I’d met, but the world looked at him and saw a strong, masculine, good-looking, straight man.

“Paper records,” I told Jacob. Might as well have been smoke as far as I was concerned. Paper records were hard to find and almost impossible to get access to. The hospitals were out of business, doctors lost their licenses or moved to other areas of the profession. Who knew the real reasons behind Kade’s many hospitalizations? He’d never spoken of them to me with more than just passing acknowledgment.

“You’ve been with him a while. Does he seem unstable?”

“No.” Kade was the most stable person I’d known in my entire life. He didn’t doubt himself or hesitate. He was just Kade, ex-Marine, PI, and my lover. “Plus if he really had such a bad mental history, the military wouldn’t have taken him, would they?”

“Your brother had undiagnosed depression,” Jacob pointed out.

“PTSD,” I clarified. “That came after he got home.”

“Mhmm.” Jacob made a placating noise. “And how old were

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