The Voices are Back (Gator Bait MC Book 5) by Lani Lynn Vale

Author:Lani Lynn Vale [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lani Lynn Vale
Published: 2023-04-10T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

You don’t have to die to be dead to me.

-coffee cup

AODHAN

Something had changed.

Whether it was learning that I hadn’t blocked her after all, or what she’d learned from Danyetta, I didn’t know.

But after the two extra women at my kitchen table left, I would be asking her.

“What’s with that look on your face?” Folsom asked.

Was she always so in your face?

Luckily, the words weren’t directed at me.

Because I wasn’t sure I could tell her what was actually on my mind—her best friend.

That wouldn’t be appropriate to talk about right now with all the extra people in my business that didn’t actually need to be there.

“I’m thinking that this table is a little cramped with four people sitting at it,” I told her, not outright telling her to leave, but insinuating all the same.

Folsom grinned. “You want us to leave, don’t you?”

If she could be direct, so could I.

“I want you to leave,” I confirmed.

Folsom clapped comically. “See, look how easy it is to be direct. It didn’t hurt you or me for you to say that, either.”

“It kind of hurt me,” Danyetta stood up, gathered her Egg McMuffin trash, and threw it into the trash can beside the back door.

Her eyes narrowed on something outside, then she dropped her head and looked at her feet.

“What?” I asked.

She gestured toward the door, and I looked up just as my alarm alerted me that two people were walking up my driveway.

“Is that the district attorney dude?” I asked.

I knew the other man.

“Damn, that dude is a tall glass of black water,” Folsom said dreamily.

“What the hell is black water?” I wondered.

“I think it was a euphemism,” Morrigan said softly, her throat still scratchy despite her speaking a lot better this morning. “A tall glass of water is something people say when they’re talking about a man that’s a sight for sore eyes, you know? I think the black part was just her saying that man looked really good. And he’s an African American god.”

I looked down at her to see her cheeks pinking.

She went back to her chair, and I wondered if she was going to sit there just to sit, or if seeing Sheriff Sunny Summers was just making her heart wonky.

Jesus, I hoped it was the former.

I didn’t want her feeling like that for any other man but me.

And now I was sitting there considering punching the sheriff for being attractive. Go me.

I opened the door to the two men, and Danyetta all but hid behind Folsom, behind us all.

Derek Shepherd, who definitely wasn’t a doctor on television but an actual real-life district attorney for the state of Florida, walked in first. Followed by Sunny Summers, the new sheriff that was instated shortly after I was released from prison last year.

Derek’s eyes scanned the kitchen the moment he breached my door, looking for the one woman that he’d likely been dying to see. Sunny’s eyes came directly to me.

He held out his hand, and I shook it.

“Just making a

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