The Nymph Ties The Knot_A Nocturne Falls Universe story by J. L. Farey

Author:J. L. Farey [Farey, J. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sugar Skull Books
Published: 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

CRYSTAL WAS IN NOCTURNE Falls. The fact played over and over in Aiden’s head like a snippet of an old song that refused to shut up. How had she found him? Why had she even tried? What in the world could she want?

“Want to talk about it?” Wade broke the silence but kept his eyes on the road.

“No.”

They didn’t make it a minute before Wade was talking again. “I get it. This is a lousy situation, and I know you want your privacy. But if you do want to talk, you know, later, I’m available.”

The sincerity in his partner’s voice made Aiden sorry he’d snapped at him. “Thanks.”

“I know what you’re going through. It’s always awkward when an old girlfriend comes back into the picture.”

“A girlfriend? Is that what she told you?”

“No, but she didn’t have to.” Wade shrugged one shoulder. “It’s pretty obvious.”

This was getting worse and worse. “You don’t know what you’re talking about. I was never involved with Crystal. She was only seventeen when I knew her.”

Wade frowned and shot a sideways look at Aiden. “Seventeen? That’s crossing a line, dude.”

His fingers curling into fists, Aiden growled back. “Yeah, it would be if I’d done anything, but I didn’t.”

“Then where’d the kid come from?”

“What kid?”

“She’s got a kid,” Wade said, his tone hard and cold. “He looks a lot like you. You don’t end up with a boy cub from being platonic friends.”

A growl rumbled in Aiden’s throat and he held back the urge to shift right there in the car’s bucket seat. There was zero chance he could be the father of that boy, but if the rest of the town was like Wade, it wouldn’t matter. Was that why Crystal tracked him down? To spread lies about him? Maybe she needed money and figured this was a good way to get it.

The two of them kept quiet until Wade slid the cruiser into a parking spot behind the station. “Is Crystal here?” Aiden asked.

Wade shook his head. “No. She went back to the hotel. I told her to come back here around noon.”

He checked the dash board time display just before Wade cut the engine. 9:26. He’d go nuts if he had to wait that long. “I’m going to talk to her now. Thanks for the lift.”

Aiden hopped out before Wade could make another unappreciated comment. That didn’t keep his partner from yelling after him.

“Good luck!”

Shoulders hunched and hands stuffed into his pants pockets, Aiden grunted at the idea of luck, good or otherwise. He’d always believed that his destiny was shaped by the choices he made. But nothing he’d done explained this current development. Maybe there was something to that luck thing, after all.

It was a short walk to the hotel, but it seemed like he passed everyone he knew in Nocturne Falls along the way. Maybe it was his imagination, but he felt sure they looked at him with either pity or judgment. His pace quickened. He was only steps away from the front door of the hotel when a hand grasped his shoulder.

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