Blinding Trust (Mitchell Family, #7)(42)

The phone rang four times before someone picked up.

And it wasn’t Colt.





Chapter 18


Colt


I woke up on the bathroom floor, looking around and trying remember why the hell I was where I was. Once I was in the sitting position, it all came back to me.

Without my phone, or a clock in the bathroom, I had no idea what time it was. All I knew was that it was daylight out.

I could hear my phone’s ringtone, but it wasn’t in the bathroom, so I jumped up and headed out into the bedroom to find it.

I stopped in my tracks when I saw one of the blondes from the night before holding it in her hand and talking to whoever had called. I said a little prayer, hoping to God that it wasn’t my wife. I‘d never hear the end of it, if it was.

“Hold on, he’s right here!” She handed me my phone.

Hello?

The line was already dead.

I looked up at the girl. “Who was it?”

She giggled. “I think it was your wife. She thought she dialed the wrong number, I guess.”

“Shit!” I started pacing around the room. “You two need to get your shit and get out of here, now!”

Her smiled dissipated as she gathered the rest of her clothes and her sleeping girlfriend and ran out of my room.

I sat down on the bed and stared at my phone. Without giving myself time to rethink things, I dialed Savanna.

I don’t want to talk to you right now, Colt!

Just hear me out, would ya?

I think I’ve heard about enough!

Savanna, it ain’t what you think. That was just Pi…

Don’t you dare lie to me, Colt Mitchell. So help me God.

You’re this mad over someone answering my phone?

No! I’m not just mad about that. I’m mad about something else, too.

Well, I ain’t done nothin’ else.

Bullshit!

Savanna, I don’t know what you’re talkin’ about.

For someone that sent the message himself, I’m finding it hard to believe that you can’t remember. I mean, if I took a picture of a bunch of naked men, I think I’d remember it.

What the hell? Let me guess, Ty sent you that shit?

No! I saw it on his phone this morning. He’s here to help the alarm company install a new system.

He ain’t stayin’ at our house.

Don’t you dare go there with me! Until you can explain to me what you were doing and what you were thinking, I don’t want to talk to you, Colt. You’ve hurt me and you’re acting like you did nothing wrong. You have no idea what I’m going through. Do you know how it made me feel to see you sending a picture like that. You better not wish I was there, because right now I’d cut off your testicles and feed them to Sam!”



I tossed the phone on the bed and laid down next to it. I was in the dog house, when it came to my wife. A little while later, Noah came barging into my room. “Dad, you’re never goin’ to believe it. I got to meet some of the players from the Raiders. They own the restaurant that we ate at last night. Piper got them to autograph some things for you.”

I sat up and took in just how excited my son was. “Sounds like a good time. I figured you’d call last night before you went to bed.”

“Sorry! Me and Johnny stayed up playing his Xbox.” Noah was oblivious to what had went down at the house the night before.

Well, he didn’t know until the screaming began.

Piper and Zeke were really having it out. I could tell that it bothered Noah. We weren’t a loud kind of family. Sure, we had typical redneck arguments, but we didn’t get loud and we surely didn’t do it in front of the children.

“What’s goin’ on?”

I patted him on the back. “I reckon they’re havin’ it out about somethin’. It ain’t none of our business though. Did you eat breakfast?”

“I had a doughnut. I’m still hungry.” The screaming was getting to him. He started fidgeting.

“How about you and me head out and get something to eat. I’m sure that limo driver can take us somewhere.”

His eyes lit up. “Cool. I want pancakes with whip cream and strawberries.”

I shook my head. He was a chip off the old block. I finished putting on my shoes. “Let’s go find us some pancakes then.”

It was easy to slip out of the house unnoticed and luckily we found the limo driver outside, talking on his cell phone. Noah seemed so excited that we didn’t have to pull the guy’s leg to get him to take us somewhere.

He drove us to a corner diner and assured us that the appearance on the outside had nothing to do with the quality of food on the inside. It was what he called a ‘gem’.

We invited him to join us, but he instantly declined. Noah and I found a booth seat against a window and started looking over the menu. “Dad, they have the pancakes, with any kind of fruit you could ever want. This place is awesome!”

I looked over at him while I sat down my menu. “I’ll just have what you’re gettin’ then.”

Noah told the waitress what we wanted and I added a coffee before she walked away. He was looking all around outside the window. “So, Noah, are you havin’ a nice visit?”

“Yeah. I can’t wait to come again. Piper said Uncle Zeke has a surprise for me. Do you know what it is?”