Rampage (A Night Fire Novel Book 4) by TM Watkins Page B

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    “Aus man, this is Harmony.”
    “Hey.”
    Oh I bet they cry when he smiles. Yes, I could see this one being a fan girl favorite. In fact all of them could have their own legion of fan girls.
    He was off helping the tribe of children down the stairs before I could respond, Evan dragged me into the boardroom where the meeting was waiting to happen. Jaxon and Fraser were sitting at opposite ends of the table, as soon as we stepped into the room I knew there was a lot of tension between them.
    “Has mommy two ripped your head off yet?” Jaxon grinned at us.
    “Yes.” Evan said rather annoyed.
    I turned to him and waited for him to remember our conversation. He sighed lowly and with a lot of pain.
    “I'm sorry I bailed on you on Saturday. I was there but not at their graves, I couldn't do it. I don't even know how you can do it.”
    “I can do it because I do it all the time. You'll get used to it.”
    The door beside me pushed open further, I turned to see at yet another man. This one was Curtis the drummer, I knew that from the stalking I had done on Saturday.
    “You know the rules.” he said softly. “We don't abandon, we don't give lame ass excuses. You failed when he needed you.”
    “I wasn't the only one.”
    Jaxon huffed. “Don't think I haven't coped the same lecture. Suck it up and take it like a man.”
    Evan rolled his eyes and dumped himself into a chair. It was awkward to say the least.
    “I said I was sorry and I said that I was at the cemetery. Don't go getting all freaked out just because I can't handle standing next to a grave.”
    “But you didn't even acknowledge us or wait by the gates. How would we have known that you were there Evan?”
    He turned to Eden who had just walked into the room followed by the older fellow that had been cut off by Sahara a few minutes ago. The man smiled at me as he held out his hand.
    “Hi I'm Jerry. You must be Harmony.”
    “Yeah, that's me.” I smiled as I shook his hand.
    He closed the door as Austin walked in, everyone settling into a seat. I took all of the documents that Devlin had left behind and sat beside Evan.
    Jerry was at the head of the table, Eden beside him with Fraser on the other side of her. There was still a lot of tension in the room, one that I couldn't get past. Aside from the issue regarding Fraser there was the fact that Evan had got married and there was only one in this room who had seen it. Though I doubted he remembered much of it.
    I set the documents to the table and took a deep breath, starting before Jerry could stop fussing with his own documents.
    “Okay, I'll start. I know that you're all pretty pissed at what happened. I doubt that Evan would have wanted to cause this kind of grief to the people he loves. Everyone handles their grief differently, ten years might have passed but that doesn't mean that the suffering fades. You talk of the suffering for Fraser and I understand that you all have positive motives for this and only want him to move forward in his life. But I ask you, what of the one of you that might have unknowingly suffered? We all have burdens from family issues but none more so than the child that grows up without a parent. What if he looks to others as a role model and loves them as his own? How should he react when they die, it's not his place to be upset, is it? It's not his parent that has passed on but it feels that way.”
    Evan offered a slight smile when I looked at him. I turned back to the table, to the two that sat opposite. Fraser and Eden. She was still angry at Evan and Jaxon and I agreed with her anger. Evan should have told her that he had issues regarding this matter and Jaxon should have at least gone over and said something. But they didn't and it was in the past, everyone had to move on.
    “But he still feels the loss, to the mother and more importantly to the father. A man that replaced the one that he was lacking in. Who welcomed the neighborhood children into his home and