Linger (Rebel Book 4) by Molly McAdams

Author:Molly McAdams [McAdams, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jester Creations, LLC
Published: 2023-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

DIGGS

“Yeah, see, I had a feeling it was something like this,” a familiar, masculine voice said.

I glanced over my shoulder and felt my stomach drop when I saw Kieran’s brother-in-law, Aurora’s husband, the cop, standing there in regular clothing. Arms down at his sides. Hands repeatedly flexing into fists.

“Twin,” Jentry said coldly, head bouncing before roughly shaking. “I fucking knew.”

“Knew what?” I asked, the warning in my question clear, but Jentry just lifted a brow at me, meeting the challenge.

“You think we didn’t know y’all were into something?” he asked with a bitter laugh. “I’m not a fucking idiot, but Jess told me dozens of times how good y’all were—about the good y’all do for so many people. And then I find you like this? Fucking hell, what’d you do to him?”

“He’s clearly had a bad day,” I said dryly, gesturing to Vinny’s lifeless body.

At the stunned sound that left Jentry, Kieran asked him, “Why are you even here?”

Jentry looked at me a second longer before glancing at Kieran, palm roughing over his jaw before he gestured to the houses I’d just run past. “I grew up there—my parents still live there,” he explained.

From the way Kieran’s gaze momentarily darted that way, he hadn’t known the house was so close to our main one. Then again, Jentry and Jessica had been separated by their addict mom and an adoption at a young age.

“I came to check on them when I heard about the explosion and heard a gunshot when I was getting out of my car,” Jentry went on, then lifted his chin at Kieran. “Saw you just before you disappeared into the grass.”

Kieran’s jaw worked before he asked, “Did you call it in?”

“Not yet.”

“Ever,” Kieran corrected at the same time I said, “At all.”

“You won’t call it in at all,” I repeated firmly.

“You fucking ki—” Jentry drew in a sharp breath and dragged his hands over his head, jaw twitching as he looked between us. But where most people outside our world would be horrified at what Jentry had walked up on, there was only a depraved understanding that came from living in our world. When Jentry continued, his voice was softer but filled with frustration. “You killed someone.”

“Two people, actually. His brother’s over there.” I pointed in the vague direction I remembered Vinny’s brother being, my tone mocking when I said, “And your reaction and the fact that you walked up to us without your gun drawn makes me think you didn’t just expect it of us, but you’re okay with it. So, we’ll take care of the scene, and you won’t call it in.”

An irritated laugh left Jentry. “Everything I am demands that I do.”

“If you knew what they’d done, you would’ve been right here with us.”

The look on Jentry’s face said it all: He wanted me to be telling the truth. He wanted to believe we weren’t just randomly murdering people. He wanted Jess to be telling the truth when she said we were good people.

“Doesn’t matter what they did; I have to call it in,” he finally said.

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