More Than a Memory: A Brother's Best Friend Second Chance Romance: (Cole Creek Book 2) by Molly McLain

Author:Molly McLain [McLain, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-20T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

OLIVIA

I’ve been back to Cole Creek exactly twice since Aiden and I broke up in college. Both visits were for funerals, and that has my stomach twisting into knots as we enter the outskirts of town where the familiar—and now eerie— Cole Creek Cemetery comes into view.

Aiden knows what he’s doing bringing me back here, and I trust that my brother will do his damnedest to keep me safe, too. But there’s an ominous third time's a charm feeling about coming home when someone wants to put me in that cemetery, too. It’s like I’m tempting fate, or worse, throwing myself in front it.

“You’re either gonna throw up or bolt. Which is it so I know whether to slow down or speed up?” Aiden shoots me a sidelong glance from the driver’s seat, and I tighten my grip on the passenger side door.

“I’m not bolting anywhere near the cemetery, believe me.”

His frown turns into a grin. “Superstitious?”

“Ha-ha, you’re funny.” I glare at him, and he gives a lighthearted laugh.

“Just trying to lighten the mood.” He reaches over and pats my hand. “Anyway, I was thinking we’d drop your stuff off at my place and then head over to see your parents so we can let them know what’s going on. You okay with that?”

My excitement for seeing Mom and Dad is drowned out by the wave of nausea in my stomach. My parents know that Jake was murdered, but they don’t know the full story about the threats made against me. Uncle Joe told them the security was just a precaution because we didn’t know what Jake might’ve been messed up in, and I’d hoped to keep it that way. I guess time is up on that front.

“How much do we have to tell them? About Jake, I mean.”

Aiden taps his thumb against the steering wheel as we slow to a stop at the first intersection in town. There’s no stoplight, of course, because even during the summer, there aren’t enough people in Cole Creek to warrant one.

“We should tell them everything.”

“I was afraid you’d say that.”

He gives me a compassionate glance while a tractor with a trailer full of hay crosses the road in front of us. “Liv, we can’t keep them in the dark. It’s not safe.”

“Can we leave out the part with my head in the middle of a bullseye? And the cat?”

He nods thoughtfully. “I suppose they don’t need those details.”

Thank god, because telling them that Aiden and I are seeing each other is going to be awkward enough. I don’t need them imagining all the ways I might die, too.

“Are you ready for the wrath of my father?” I ask as Aiden maneuvers his truck through town, past the Cole Stop and Tulah’s Diner, the library, the post office, Bobbie Jean’s bookstore, and Kaminski’s Auto, all of which are situated on Main Street behind clean sidewalks and black lamp posts with hanging baskets overflowing with colorful flowers.

“I can handle your old man, Liv. The question is are you ready?”

Yes.

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