Shadow Obsession by Beth D. Carter

Author:Beth D. Carter [Carter, Beth D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2023-10-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Are you going to tell me why we’re here?” Lincoln asked.

“What do you mean? We’re on date number two.”

He cocked his head. “I’d believe that, except for the fact that you don’t like Mexican food.”

“Why do you think I don’t?”

“’Cause you wouldn’t eat the tacos that Bolt fixed the other night.”

“That’s because Bolt sweats a lot, not because I don’t like tacos.”

“What does that have to do with anything?”

“Where do you think all that sweat ended up?”

Lincoln thought about it and shuddered. “I wish you hadn’t told me that. How do you expect me to eat anything he makes anymore? In fact, how do I know the chef back there in the kitchen isn’t sweating on food right now?”

“Crap,” she said, with a grimacing frown. “I didn’t think my argument through.”

Lincoln held his chuckle inside, and then he looked over her head and saw Parker. Instantly, he knew this was a setup.

“What did you do, Vivi?”

She glanced behind her. “Oh. It’s you.”

“Not funny,” he muttered.

Parker reached them and hesitated. Vivi jumped up and wrapped her arms around him, and as unreasonable as he knew it to be, jealousy flashed in his heart.

“Hope I’m not intruding,” Parker said once Vivi let him go.

“Sit down, Parker,” Vivi invited. “We haven’t ordered yet.”

Parker remained standing, staring at him. Waiting for the okay. Lincoln nodded and a little bit of the freeze between them thawed. The waiter hurried over and set glasses of water in front of everyone and they placed their order. Once they were alone, Vivi played tennis with her eyes, looking back and forth between them.

“How have you been, Linc?”

“Fine.” Vivi kicked him under the table and he shot her a dark glower. “I’ve been well. You?”

“I’ve been great.”

“Good. Great.”

“Oh my God, a snail race has more energy then you two,” Vivi said. “How about we act like I’m an interviewer? I’ll ask questions and you two answer.”

“Fine.”

“Fine.”

“Fine,” she huffed. “Parker, why are you not talking to Linc?”

“Ask him.”

“Do you not know how interviews work?” she demanded with a huff.

Parker looked from her back to him. “The last time we spoke, I asked you to be honest with me. What was going on? Why did you turn to them?”

“Watch it.”

“Talk to me, Linc,” Parker stressed, his eyes pleading. “Please.”

Vivi placed her hand in his and when he looked at her, she gave an encouraging smile.

“She doesn’t know about the accident.”

“What accident?” Vivi asked, frowning.

He waited, knowing Parker would tell her. It wasn’t a moment he wanted to relive, but it seemed like he didn’t have a choice.

“Seven years ago, Linc wrapped his car around a tree,” Parker told her. “He wasn’t expected to live, but somehow, he survived that first night. And the next and the next, until the doctors were optimally hopeful he would recover.”

“Oh,” she said softly, eyes wide. The hazel depths swirled with fear, worry, and horror. Clearly, she hadn’t expected that explanation.

“To reduce the swelling in his brain, they had to remove some of his skull plate,” Parker continued.

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