CHAPTER 21
NOAH STARED INTO HIS lap. Was he trying to conjure up some sort of lie? He couldn’t meet Nick’s gaze, but his eyes settled somewhere around his shoulder. “I was at the Lucky Star.”
Kennedy had never heard of the place but could tell how painful it was for Noah to admit. She tried to gauge Nick’s reaction.
“I wasn’t going there to get picked up or anything,” Noah added hastily. “I was looking for somebody, and I ...” He cut himself off. “Maybe I should start from the beginning.”
Kennedy wished he would.
Nick remained silent.
Noah took a deep breath. “Ok, so earlier tonight, I got a text from my friend, Dayton. He was at the Lucky Star and someone was making him uncomfortable, and he asked me to go get him.”
Kennedy remembered Noah’s reaction when he got a text in the Lindg
