Incendiary by Kathryn Kelly
Author:Kathryn Kelly [Kelly, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Makin' Groceries Media
Published: 2015-06-17T07:00:00+00:00
Mr. Dalton, the following issue has come about. Trouble1 received a threat against her life. Mrs. Sanderson was informed, but she didnât want to alarm the subject. Weâve confirmed the threat.
I re-read the message. âGeorgie is code named Trouble1?â
No response from anyone. This can be manufactured, too.
Kiln snatches his phone away. âBelieve me now?â
I fucking fought to stay in my band. I put up with their no drugs and no fighting rules. I wonder if it was just a ruse, and theyâd never had any intentions of releasing me.
âGet him on the phone,â I order. âI want the facts and the details first hand.â
âAre you willing to risk her life?â Jaeger counters.
No, Iâm not, and we all know it.
âYou still have statutory rape charges pending, boy,â Dad reminds me. âYou need to put a lot of distance between you and the McCall girl, once you obtain custody of my granddaughter.â
âBryn stays with her mother,â I say flatly. Had I intended to seek custody, I wouldnât have allowed my father to come anywhere near my daughter.
âYou two are better off apart,â he insists. âShe has to go with or without the child.â
Maitland shakes his head in disagreement. âI think they love each other, Rand. Sloane was at his best when she was with him.â
âHis muse?â Dad asks.
âNo.â I skim a cold glance between my former bandmates. âThatâs why youâre all here? You believed Dad had found a way to force me back in?â
âNo, we were upstairs in the music room,â Quint answers tightly. âKiln told us what was going on about the threat at the hospital before calling you on the phone.â
âDonât rejoin yet,â Maitland suggests, ever the diplomat. âJust think about it.â
âYes, think about it, Sloane,â Kiln warns. âIf the threat is real, imagine what will happen to Georgie if you quit the fucking band? Go ahead. Find out. We need to handle this, so you donât go back to fucking jail for statutory rape. Everyone will know sheâs telling the truth. And sheâll either be at Helenâs mercy or out on her own.â
Yes, because if Iâm sent back to jail they wonât lift a finger to protect her. Worse, sheâll be caught in the middle of a custody battle. Not between her and my father, but my father and her grandmother, neither wanting to be outdone by the other.
âYou really want to protect her, get back in the fucking band,â Dad says in a hard voice.
âYou want your motherfucking sons to have money, write them a fucking check,â I snarl.
âDonât you miss music?â Adam asks.
âFuck, yes,â I respond, without even considering my answer. Itâs right there, brewing within me. What my music once meant. Not what itâs become. âI miss it for the sake of art and because we enjoyed bringing words to life. What weâve become over the last twenty-five or thirty months? No. I donât want that.â
âIâd like to add you to the itinerary again for the trip to LA,â Jaeger says cautiously.
The one that weâd been planning as the European tour wound down.
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