Twisted by Laura K. Curtis

Author:Laura K. Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: River Hills Press
Published: 2017-07-06T23:57:56+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Regardless of a parent’s capabilities, a child’s natural instinct when in pain is to cry out for her mother.

from A Bad Day to Die by Lucy Sadler Caldwell [DRAFT]

THE STATION LINE rang at seven-thirty and Marge picked it up with a cheery expression that quickly turned grim. Ethan couldn’t hear her, but she hung up quickly and turned to TJ. Ethan rose from his desk and hurried toward them.

“Ohmigod, Tara Jean,” Marge said, “you need to go home right now. Your brother’s been shot.”

Ethan remembered the words TJ had said to him the day Lucy came to town. If he had a heart, she’d probably put a stake through it. And then there was Tim’s shaky phone call after Drew visited their house: He scared her. And Lucy’s not scared of anything.

“Where?” Ethan barked at Marge. “When?”

“I don’t know when! That was Sue, from the sheriff’s office. She said a construction worker found him this morning at the Belle Pointe development.” She switched her attention back to TJ. “Sheriff’s there now, but I don’t know if they’ve called your daddy. He’ll need you.”

“I’m going. Ethan?”

“Yeah. Marge, call Keith and get him in here. I’ll call in later. You can reach me on my cell.” If she chose to interpret his statement to mean he’d be with TJ, he wouldn’t argue. But he had no intention of spending time with the mayor; he needed to get to Lucy before Pike did.

On the way over to Lucy’s, he made two calls. The first, to tell her he had something urgent to discuss with her, the second, to call in a favor.

“What’s going on?” Lucy asked, meeting him at the door, her fingers busy braiding damp hair into a long queue. She’d clearly just come from the shower, and he forced his mind away from the picture of the water sluicing over her naked body.

Back to business. Lucy had asked him what he’d discovered when he’d called, but he had refused to explain. Regardless of his attraction to her, regardless of the fact that he trusted her almost completely, he needed to see her reaction when she heard about Drew. She invited him in, and he followed her into the kitchen, where she poured coffee for both of them.

“I think we’d better sit down for this one,” he said, when she leaned back against the stove and raised her eyebrows expectantly.

“Oooo-kay.”

He trailed her into the living room, and they sat on the couch. She put her coffee on the table and he followed suit.

“Drew Dobbs is dead.”

Her eyes widened and her face paled. She could have faked one, but not the other. Ethan tried not to acknowledge his own relief. If he let it show, she would know that he hadn’t had complete faith in her and it would hurt her, which was the last thing on earth he wanted to do.

“H-how?” Her huge, blue eyes were fixed on him. It cast him back to the way Renee’s mother had avoided looking at him—she’d wanted to hear nothing; Lucy wanted everything.

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