Loose Cannon (Woodbury Boys) by Sidney Bell

Author:Sidney Bell [Bell, Sidney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2017-03-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Later, after a morning taking care of inspections and permits, Church got a text from Tobias: Can I come by? I need to talk to you.

Church sighed. Three guesses what this was about. He wasn’t sure he was up for more drama today. Tobias wasn’t one for conflict, but when it came to Ghost, he could be fierce, so Church sent him the workshop’s address and started trying to come up with an explanation.

On the verge of putting his phone away, he hesitated, his thumb hovering over the button that would delete Ghost’s number. The whole thing seemed so...off, like he’d been looking at a book written in another language. So even though he’d read Ghost’s words as true at the time, maybe that was a mistake. Maybe in six months or a year, when Church figured out how to get away from the bakery, it’d be different. Maybe Ghost would take it back.

And maybe Church was in denial, but he put his phone away without deleting anything.

By the time Tobias pushed the door open, his brown curls windswept, his cheeks ruddy from the cold, Church still didn’t have any idea what to say. He interrupted Miller where he was laying vacuum ductwork to make introductions, and all the while he tried to send Miller telepathic signals that he should keep Tobias from getting Church alone.

Turned out Miller wasn’t even part mutant. What a disappointment.

“It’s nice to meet you,” Tobias said to Miller, shaking his hand. “I’ve heard a lot of good things about you.”

“Oh,” Miller said, visibly flustered. “That’s, uh, nice. I’ve heard nice things about you too.”

“That’s so nice of you to say,” Tobias replied, smiling, and Miller smiled back.

“Yes, you’re both very nice people,” Church intoned, rolling his eyes.

Tobias gave him that admonishing glower he always wore when Church’s social skills were lacking. It was the same one Miller was giving him, actually.

“Whoa.” Church looked between the two of them and shuddered. “Stop doing that with your faces. You look like teachers.”

Tobias shook his head and started hauling him out the door, waving over his shoulder at Miller and calling, “I’m only going to steal him for a little bit.”

“Take your time,” Miller called back.

The afternoon was crisp, heavy with exhaust and loud with the rattling of the Union Pacific coal cars rumbling down the rail on the other side of the chain-link fence at the edge of the property. Church huddled in his hoodie as Tobias nudged him to sit on the low brick wall that separated the sidewalk from the parking lot.

“I don’t care what else happens in my life,” Church said, “you two are not allowed to gang up on me.”

Tobias ignored that. “Why is Ghost breaking up with us?”

“What?” Church swallowed. “Shit. I didn’t know he was cutting you out too. Maybe if you talk to him?”

“I tried. He was implacable.”

Church kicked at a loose pebble. “I don’t know that word.”

“It means unbending. Talk to me, Church. Tell me how to fix this.

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