smiling. Screaming loudly, she ran to him and jumped in his arms crying.
* * *
Nate was working on a 4WD when Dom ran back from the house. “What’s wrong?” Nate asked him.
Breathing heavily from running, Dom told him, “I heard Skylar scream.”
He took off towards the front of her house. Nate dropped his tools and ran after him.
Dom stopped all of a sudden. “What is it?” Nate asked. Dom was frowning at something. Nate looked over and all he saw was Skylar crying, with her legs wrapped around some guy’s waist, arms around his neck, kissing him all over his face. The guy was laughing and kissed her back. Frowning, Dom asked, “Who the hell is that guy?” He watched the guy carrying Skylar into her home; it kind of pissed him off.
“I have no bloody idea who he is. Well, it looks like she moved on then,” Nate growled. There was no way he was going over there to talk to her now, after seeing that. He stomped back to his shed; she was definitely playing with him. Of course she had a boyfriend and she was just leading him on. Well, fuck that, he didn’t give a shit.
After finishing the 4WD, Dom said he had stuff to do and left, which was fine with him. Tracey was coming over soon. He dressed in jeans and a shirt, knowing he didn’t have to dress up for her. She arrived at 7:30, wearing just a long coat. Knowing exactly what was under that, made him smile knowing what was coming.
He led her in and over to the couch, they never fucked around when it came to this. Tracey pushed him down on the couch, and stripped her coat off. With a wicked smile she came over to him completely naked, straddled him and went to work on why she was there.
* * *
“Oh my God, I can’t believe you’re actually here, Craig.” She couldn’t believe it. He had told her that he would be gone for three months, but he had only been gone for two.
They were sitting on the sofa talking, “So what’s been going on?” he asked her.
The first thing she wanted to tell him was about Nate. “Well, when I moved in, I met the neighbours on both sides. Then Chantal took me out and I met the owner of Joey’s down the road; he’s a really nice guy. Then I met Dom. He’s the one that Chantal has a thing for, he’s a great guy, and sweet. Then there’s Nate. He lives next door.” She knew Craig would ask her about him, she couldn’t hide anything from him except for the thing with Lucas.
“So what’s going on with him?” he said, scowling at her. God, she loved him, but she would never go there with him. He was the closest thing to a brother to her.
“Well, we started to hit it off. He took me out to the movies, had a really great time, and then we started to get real cosy. I just couldn’t do it… we had a fight and he left. I was actually going to go over and see him tonight, but you showed up.”
“Don’t let me stop you, sweetheart. If he’s the right one for you, you go and sort out whatever happened. I want you to be happy, baby.”
“I know you do,” she said.
Dom knocked and walked in, giving her a hug. She introduced the boys to each other, “Craig, this is Dom. Dom, this is Craig, my other best friend.” They shook hands and started talking about his truck.
“I was on my way to see Nate and thought to stop in here to see how you were doing and ask when Chantal was finishing up with work.”
“She’s running late. She was going to finish around five, but something came up. She should be here in fifteen minutes.” She looked at her phone. “Do you mind if Craig and I come over with you to Nate’s? I want him to meet Craig.”
“I have absolutely no problem with that, Sky.”
They all walked out to her veranda, closing her door behind them and walked towards Nate’s. Dom didn’t bother knocking. As he walked in, he called, “You got visitors, man.” He stopped dead in his tracks;
Patrick Modiano
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William Dietrich
Adib Khan
Ciana Stone
Michael Crummey
Deon Meyer
J. L. Mac
Joseph Nassise
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