Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots Book 2) by Cat Sebastian

Author:Cat Sebastian [Sebastian, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-09-12T18:30:00+00:00

Day 6

Shamrock, Texas

Peter woke up feeling pleasantly sore and with an armful of Caleb. Strands of silky-soft blond hair tickled his nose and a wiry arm was flung across his chest.

“Caleb,” Peter whispered, but the other man didn’t stir. Peter carefully reached to the nightstand for his travel alarm clock and saw that it was only seven. He slid out from under Caleb’s arm. Caleb was still asleep when Peter returned from showering, so he quietly got dressed and slipped out to the office.

“I’d like to make a long-distance phone call,” Peter told the motel manager, and then spared her the trouble of figuring out how much to charge by simply putting a five-dollar bill on the counter. He took his address book out of his pocket and found his Aunt Patty’s number. But if it was seven in Texas, then it was five in California, and he wasn’t calling anyone at five a.m. It was eight in Massachusetts, though, so he called his uncle instead, figuring he could relay the message to his aunt.

His uncle picked up after the second ring.

“Hi, Uncle Tommy, it’s Pete.”

“Peter! Enjoying life on the lam? I got your postcard. Where are you now?”

“I’m in Texas. That’s why I’m calling. Do you think Aunt Patty would be all right with me bringing a friend? The friend I’m traveling with, I mean. I’m not sure he has anywhere to stay.”

“I doubt she’ll mind, but I’ll phone her later on to make sure. I didn’t realize you absconded with a friend.”

“It was a spur of the moment decision.”

“I can’t think of a lot of people I’d choose to spend a week in close quarters with,” Uncle Tommy said, very casually, as if he weren’t fishing for information.

“Your interrogation technique has gone to hell in a handbasket after less than a year away from Washington,” Peter observed. “Wow.”

“Damn it. This is what comes of not being surrounded by suspicion and enmity. Speaking of which, congratulations on your escape, but why California?”

“Well. I didn’t want to go to the Cape and deal with my parents. And California is in the opposite direction.”

“I can’t argue with that logic. And your partner in crime was heading to California for his own reasons?”

“He has a job out there.”

“How long do you plan on staying?”

“I’m sticking around in California,” he said. He didn’t add for a while, or until the convention. “Listen, Uncle Tommy. I’m not going to law school, and I’m not going to campaign with my father.”

“Does he know yet?”

“No. I’ll tell him when he’s in California for the convention.”

“Do you want me to fly out?” Uncle Tommy didn’t even hesitate before asking, and for some reason that just made Peter sad. He had never tried to lean on his parents, because there was no way that would have ended well, and now he wondered what it would have been like to have a parent who actually cared about him. He squeezed his eyes shut and pinched the bridge of his nose.

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