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I didn’t even know what I was going to ask. I just felt like something had to be said to deaden the moment.
He had been a second son to her, and maybe having him around after Wes’s death might have helped her get through it. I knew that thought crossed her mind, so I shot up to my feet. “I’m going to get some ice cream.”
“Yay!” Maizy cheered.
I marched over to the counter and right out the door, staring at his tinted windows with my hands on my hips. The tires spun, throwing gravel across the parking lot as he tore off.
But I knew Austin had seen me.
A boy named after the city he was born and raised in. A kid who ate dinner at our house three nights a week. A man who now sped off like a bona fide chickenshit when faced with the option of talking to his dead friend’s sister.
A man who’d kissed me passionately the night my brother was killed.
