Reckless Behavior (Bad Behavior Book 3) by L.A. Witt & Cari Z

Reckless Behavior (Bad Behavior Book 3) by L.A. Witt & Cari Z

Author:L.A. Witt & Cari Z. [Witt, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2017-12-29T18:30:00+00:00


I wasn’t quite sure how I managed to get us from the precinct to my parents’ house without getting into a wreck. I’d insisted on driving—I knew that Andreas’s leg was causing him pain, and I wasn’t about to add to that when I didn’t have to—but when I stopped the car in their driveway and suddenly realized that, holy shit, I was already in their driveway, the fact that I was surprised worried me. It was a distant worry, though—the kind I could ignore because the screaming in my head was already so loud.

I sat there with my hands on the wheel and stared at the garage door until Andreas broke the silence. “Do you want to leave?”

“I . . . No.” I even meant it. I knew I needed to be there, I just didn’t know what to say once I got inside. Sorry Asher is dead, Mom. Sorry I didn’t notice he was a little sharper lately because he was flushing his pills down the toilet. Sorry he was aware enough to know how much he hated his life. Sorry he was able to work out how to end it. A sheet looped over the top of the bathroom door before he closed it, with his neck wrapped tight in its folds. He’d strangled, slowly and painfully, and yet no one had heard a thing. Story of his fucking life.

“Darren. Darren.” Andreas’s hand on my shoulder shook me aware again, out of the place in my head that was stuck on picturing Asher when he’d been found by the staff. Thank God it hadn’t been my mother. I met Andreas’s worried gaze.

“Sorry. Let’s go in. Or, really, you don’t have to. You could—”

“I’m going.” He got out of the car and reached back in for his crutches, then looked at me expectantly. “You coming with me?”

Yeah. I could do that.

Vic met us at the front porch, looking positively gray with fatigue. Even his moustache was drooping. “Hey, kid. C’mere.” He held out an arm to hug me, and I went to him, biting my lip and determined not to cry. I had to hold it together now. I didn’t have time to break down, not with Emily and Casey still out there.

“Where’s Mom?” I managed once I was sure my voice wouldn’t break.

“She’s in his bedroom. Has been since she called you. She won’t talk to me.” I could hear the pain in his voice at that confession, like he was failing somehow because my mother couldn’t face him.

“I’ll go see her.”

“Thanks, son.” He pulled back, then looked over my shoulder at Andreas. “Christ, are you nuts standing there like that? Get inside, get on the couch, prop that leg up.” Andreas went without complaint, giving Vic exactly what he needed right now: someone to take care of. I hoped I’d remember to thank him when this was all over.

I walked down the hall toward the bedrooms. Asher and I had shared one until he went away



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