Thrilled To Death by Jennifer Apodaca

Author:Jennifer Apodaca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

It was dark by the time Gabe and I left the police station. Grandpa, Lola, and Cal had escaped first since they had less complicated stories. Gabe and I had been kept separate, but as a guess, I assumed he was put through a bit more because he found Shane dead.

Needless to say, Vance was a little pissed off. Murdered famous people in his town ruined his day. So he made sure to ruin ours, which in retrospect seemed like a fair trade-off. Vance was really angry at me. The only thing that mollified him was that I had called him after Shane left our house. He believed Grandpa and I were going to tell him all that we knew.

And I truly hadn’t known much yesterday at lunch.

Gabe took my arm as we went out of the building into the parking lot. I didn’t have my car since Grandpa and I had been using his Jeep, and once Vance was finished with him, he had taken the Jeep home. As we walked to where Gabe’s truck was parked, I said, “Are you all right? That had to be awful to find Shane.”

He didn’t miss a step and just said, “Fine.”

I had so many emotions rushing through me I couldn’t keep them all straight. One of them was guilt over being the reason Gabe went to Shane’s and found him murdered. “If only you hadn’t run off to Shane’s like that.”

He came to a sudden stop at the back bumper of his truck. “What?”

I looked up into his face. We stood under one of those amber-colored lights that cast a glow over the hard-edged planes of Gabe’s face. His anger practically glimmered in the light. “You wouldn’t listen to me. If you hadn’t gone there, you wouldn’t have found him and you wouldn’t have had to go through all this.” It wasn’t a hard concept.

He asked softly, “So you think I should let a man knock you around? Is that it, Sam? Or are you mad because you had already called Vance to rescue you?”

I tried to yank my arm from his grasp, but he held on firmly. “I didn’t need to be rescued! I tried to tell you that, but you were so busy being the hotshot hero, you just sprang into action.” Bone-deep fatigue and raw anger mixed to a dangerous potion. “But God forbid I should try to help you. You cut me out of your family problems and refuse to tell me what’s really bothering you about our new arrangement, and I’m the one that’s got the problem?”

He dropped my arm. “Now you’re pissed because I’m not eating bonbons and sharing my feelings? Pissed enough to go running to Vance?”

“I never ran to Vance! I called him after Shane attacked me because he’s a cop. That’s rational, Pulizzi. Your running off to beat the shit out of Shane is not rational.” My anger and anxiety shoved out my tiredness. My deepest fears shot right up from the dark places inside of me.

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