his son always used.
“Baby, I just wanted to make sure you got home all right. You were a little drunk.”
Outrage coursed through Colt’s veins. “You allowed our son to drive when he’d been drinking?”
Silence screamed across the line.
“Why do you have Key’s phone?”
The cold fury in her voice was nothing compared to the white-hot rage gushing through Colt at the moment. “Because he dropped it while he was climbing through his bedroom window. At the moment he’s passed out on the floor.”
“I’m... I’m sure he wasn’t drinking that much when he left here. He must have stopped at a friend’s on the way home.”
Liar.
“He won’t be driving for a good long while. And he won’t be available by cell, either.”
“My father gave him that truck. You don’t have any right to take it.”
“You would rather I arrest him for driving under the influence? I can definitely do that, and I don’t need your or your daddy’s permission to do it.”
“You wouldn’t dare.”
He laughed. “I arrested you, didn’t I?”
Of course, her rich daddy had hired the best lawyer in the county to take care of the situation. So far, he’d managed that feat five times. No wonder their son felt no fear of consequences. He’d watched his mother skate out of trouble his whole life. Including ten years of Colt looking the other way while she screwed her way through the county’s male population.
“My father will be calling you in the morning.”
The call ended.
Colt turned the phone off and shoved it into the pillowcase of the pillow he didn’t use. His boy would never think to look there. God knew his momma wasn’t coming anywhere near Colt’s bed.
He shucked his jeans and boxers and headed for the shower. While he waited for the water to warm he thought of the biggest mistake of his life.
Hurting Rey.
Each time he saw her he was reminded of the enormous mistake he’d made. How the hell had he let her get away? He almost laughed at the idea. He hadn’t let her do anything. Audrey Rose Anderson did what she damned well pleased, then and now.
She had been his everything since he was a kid. If he was honest with himself, he had been fascinated with her since the first day of kindergarten when she kicked the boy who laughed at him for crying. Cutting the other kid some slack, he had no idea Colt’s mother had been dying with cancer. No matter that she’d been so sick, she’d wanted to take her little boy to his first day of school. When she’d left him in the classroom the tears had streamed down his face. Colt had been terrified she would die before he was back at home with her.
After kicking the laughing kid in the shin, Audrey had walked up to Colt and said, “I like your boots. You want to sit at my table?”
They had been friends from that day on. And then he’d fallen in love with her. Head over heels in love. Even now, thinking of her made it hard to breathe.
“You screwed that up, dumbass.”
Colt stepped into the shower and drowned the memories beneath the spray of hot water.
There were some transgressions for which there was no forgiveness. Rey reminded him every chance she got.
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