Lucky South: Lucky John Adventures Book 16 by Stone Mark

Author:Stone, Mark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sunday Dinner Press
Published: 2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

17

Turning, I headed for the door. It felt strange to be back in this house again. Though I had bought this place, and though I’d spent every night of my first year in Bonita Springs here, this didn’t feel like home anymore. It felt like I was a guest, like I was just keeping the place warm for someone else.

You might imagine that feeling would be a bad thing. After all, shouldn’t someone feel at home in the house they bought, in the place they spent so much time, and in the rooms that held so many cherished memories? This place couldn’t be home, though. Not anymore.

Home was a cozy, small house a few miles away. Home was the bedroom I shared with Mia. It was a kitchen where I watched her try (and mostly fail) to cook breakfast a couple mornings a week. It was the front yard I mowed while our neighbor shook his head and told me I was “rich enough to hire someone to do that”. More than that, though. Home was her. It was Mia herself. Anywhere she wasn’t, I didn’t need to be; at least, not permanently.

I pulled the door open and found Andy Winslow in front of me. He looked tired, even more tired than he had been when I left him at the hospital. His face was pale, his eyes red rimmed and puffed with pain, and his hands were twisted together in one nervous lump of fingers at his waist.

“I thought you were staying with Stavros,” I said, standing back and letting the man enter the house. Though I wouldn’t call Andy and I friends, we were definitely on that road. You don’t fight the kind of fights he and I faced together without developing some sort of camaraderie.

“I couldn’t,” he replied, his voice cracking. “It’s just too much.”

I sighed, thinking about what the man said back at the hospital, and the pep talk I’d given him there. I thought it had worked, but apparently I was wrong.

“Is he okay? Did something else happen to him?” I asked.

“He’s fine,” Andy said, marching across the living room and plopping himself down onto the couch. “As fine as somebody can be after going through something like that anyway.”

Closing the door behind me, I walked into the living room myself and stood over the man. He was looking down at the floor, his knees bobbing nervously and his hands still twisted together in a pact of anxiety.

“We’re gonna find him,” I said, folding my arms over my chest. “The man I called back at the hospital, Tru North, he’s a former Search and Rescue expert with the Coast Guard. He can find anybody. Dude’s like a walking GPS.” I flicked my head back toward the hallway. “He’s in one of those rooms right now. Half the money in my bank account says that he’ll know where the Reaper is hiding out by morning.”

“By morning?” Andy asked, looking up at me. “Do you think that’ll

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