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When I get home, I look forward to having dinner with Kas, if only for one reason—I get to hear about how his sights are now set on Bryan.
As soon as I walk in, I smell the aroma of the food filling our small cabin. Kas is at the stove, ladle in hand and apron around his neck.
“Why are you wearing that?” I ask with amusement as I drop my keys and wallet to the table by the door.
He spins around with a smile on his face. The apron says, can you handle my meat? “I found it today at the store.”
I shake my head. “Okay. What are you cooking? It actually doesn’t smell burnt.”
“Very funny,” he says. “It’s a new meal. Pretty easy. My friend told me about it.”
“Ah. The friend you went out with the other day?”
“No. Different friend. This one is new.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah. He told me about this chili.”
I make my way to the kitchen and peek into the pot. “Looks good.”
“Yeah. I hope so.”
“I’m gonna shower.”
“Okay.”
As I’m going upstairs, my phone rings.
“Hello?”
“Hey,” the voice on the other end says.
“Oh hey.” I pause on the steps and look down at Kaspian. He doesn’t turn his head, but I can tell he’s listening by the stiffness in his posture.
“You said maybe I could stop by tomorrow, but I was wondering if today would be okay? I’m actually leaving town early in the morning, so…”
He trails off and I continue up the stairs, not bothering to lower my voice as I head into the bathroom. “Tonight?” I pause for a few seconds, thinking. “Yeah, tonight could probably work. Do you know where the Lowell Point rec park is? I can meet you at that lot.”
“Is that close to your place?”
“Yeah, it’s pretty close. Less than ten minutes away.”
“Oh okay. Yeah, I can find it. When?”
“Give me forty minutes.”
“Okay, sounds good.”
“Cool. See you soon.”
I end the call and wait to hear anything from Kas, but when he doesn’t come up, I jump in the shower. During the fifteen minutes I’m under the spray of the water, I think about my plan. I came into tonight expecting to hear about Bryan and whatever Kas has up his sleeve, but it appears there will be a change of events. I hate that it has to happen earlier than I wanted, but maybe I can still make it work to my advantage.
When I get out of the shower and dry off, I wrap the towel around my waist and head downstairs to our room where I’ll get dressed. When my feet hit the wooden floor of the kitchen, I don’t see Kaspian anywhere, but I do spot the apron he had around his neck when I came in…
It’s now resting on the cutting board with a knife stabbed through it.
I rush to the bedroom to throw on some clothes, layering up with a T-shirt, hoodie, and a jacket, and jeans and boots. The temperature is only going to drop lower into the twenties as the night goes on. I grab my gloves and shove them in my pocket and then eye the knife standing straight up, the tip buried in the cutting board.
