A Sound Like Hope (Fallen Tuesday #3) Read Free

going
to play the snippet of the song that crashed the site. You guys are going to play
the entire song acoustic. ”
    “ I
like it, ” Mack said.
    “ I ’ m not sure about the questions, ” Luke said. “ You know what they ’ re going to be about. ”
    “ Talk
it out, ” Frank said. “ Tell the truth. ”
    “ What
is the truth? ” Jake asked.
    Frank looked at Jake. “ You know, it ’ s kind of funny how Trent kept
telling me to talk to you about the truth. ”
    Jake scoffed and waved a hand. “ That ’ s bullshit. ”
    “ Bullshit? ” Luke asked. He was getting
heated. “ Bullshit is that after
all this time Chloe can come back and still tear us apart. ”
    “ What
the hell did I do? ” Jake
asked.
    “ Look
at you right now, man, ” Luke said. “ You ’ re flustered. You look like you
haven ’ t slept in days. You
can ’ t get it out of your
mind. She ’ s around here
somewhere, right? ”
    Jake shook his head. “ You don ’ t …”
    “ Answer
this, ” Luke said. “ Did you try to get in touch with
her? ”
    Jake didn ’ t respond.
    “ Christ, ” Mack said.
    “ Can ’ t we just push through this? ” Gray asked. “ We ’ ve
gone through so much already, do we really need to go back in time right now? ”
    “ Answer
the question, Jake, ” Luke
said.
    “ What
I do at night is nobody ’ s
business, ” Jake said. “ Okay? I ’ m sorry Trent got in trouble, but I had nothing to
do with it. I ’ m still here.
I ’ m ready to play the show
out there. ”
    “ Why
don ’ t we all catch our
breath? ” Frank asked. “ Then we can gather up in a few. ”
    Jake walked to the door and ripped
it open. He was gone. Gray sighed and went after him. Luke crossed his arms and
Mack patted him on the shoulder.
    “ Take
it easy, brother, ” Mack
said. “ You know how deep
feelings can run. It ’ s not
easy to let go, especially when things don ’ t
end the way you want them to. ”
    Luke nodded and Mack excused
himself from the room.
    Frank leaned against a long table
lined with food. “ Did that
feel good? ”
    “ No, ” Luke said. “ It felt like shit, if you want
to know the truth. ”
    “ I
don ’ t know what my place is
here, ” Frank said. “ But you guys have a lot to lose yet
a lot more to gain. ” Luke
looked at Frank. “ And I ’ m not talking about money. ”
    “ Sure
you are, ” Luke said.
    “ Okay,
I am. But it ’ s more than
money. You and I both know that. ”
    Frank pushed from the table and
walked to the door. He gripped the handle, but just stood there.
    “ What? ” Luke asked.
    “ I
hope you guys know how much you mean to me. Not financially, but personally.
You guys are my family right now. And it seems every time I turn around there ’ s a secret waiting to hurt all
of us. I ’ m kind of sick of
it, Luke. ”
    “ There ’ s no secret here, ” Luke said. “ Chloe is a bad person. She tried
to tear the band apart many times and the hold she has over both Trent and Jake
is something I don ’ t
understand. I haven ’ t seen
Trent since before he was arrested. All I know is what I read about him. ”
    “ Do
you believe it? ” Frank
asked.
    “ Not
for a second. He wouldn ’ t
drink and drive. I ’ m not
going to say whatever he did wasn ’ t
stupid, but he would never put someone else ’ s
life in danger. ”
    Frank opened the door and left the
room.
    Luke was right back to where his
afternoon started.
    Alone.
     
    *
     
    Trent tried his best to keep his
hat down on the flight back to New York. In the airport, more than a few people
recognized him and chased him down for a picture and an autograph. They were
true fans of Fallen Tuesday and surprisingly, only one person asked about the
arrest. It was a woman who told Trent she didn ’ t
believe a thing she read about him. He thanked her, signed a piece of paper for
her, took a picture, and then rushed to get on the plane.
    The entire flight, Trent tried to
sleep, but he kept going back to that