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"You just had to go and ruin my life, didn’t you?" she screeched at me from her pink, puffy princess bed
"I haven’t ruined your life I was just pointing out that I don’t love him I don’t and I should be able to marry whoever I want, shouldn’t I?" My small display of rebellion had coement proposal on me
"If you don’ta spinster" She spat the word ‘spinster’ as if it offended her "You’re getting too old for anyone to want to ray eyes
"I’m not too old I’m twenty-four Twenty-four isn’t too old" I didn’t bother to argue with her on the spinster status affecting her chances of a good pairing since that much was true If I didn’t et around that Highs the chances of Nikkia bitch and justout loud You won’t have to work a day in your life and you can live like aze turned dreamy at the mention of money and Mother’s lifestyle of pretentious debutants, country clubs, and martinis
"I wish you and I could have some other kind of relationship You’re my sister for Christ’s sake We’re supposed to have more than this, " I verbalized, the wind fro when her porcelain face screwed up
"Relationship? No, e have is an arrange but coame face on when people are around, but know that that’s what I see you as You’re coe will be more plentiful and richer than yours My husband will spoil er and better than you ever could and with more class"
"Don’t for a second think that you’ll ever have more class than me, Nikki It’s sad this is the kind of life you want You’re looking at it through rose-colored glasses Can’t you see how lonely it would be? You think pretty things and fancy dinners will " With that, I turned and left the wicked witch to her precious castle My fa attitudes I had hoped I could save Nikki fro her eyes to the realities of our lifestyle It had been a waste of breath She’d already been blinded by the gla a thick sludge she would one day drown in Me, on the other hand, I always had a defiant streak under the cardigans and pinned up hair I was a people watcher, and even froe, I hadn’t liked what I saw
I shook my head to clear the memory and focused on Ellie "Happens to the best of us, lovely" I put ave it a squeeze while I pushed away froirl I hadn’t had led her cute self into my heart a little
"He likes you He’s lousy at showing it, but he does," she toldme stop with my hand in the air halfway to the door
"Maybe," I mumbled in return What ht where you’re eating breakfast but then he went cold as a dead fish? That probably wouldn’t go doell
I walked out the back door to find the boys all leaning against the quads waiting for me
"You survived the wrath of Ellie," Austin snickered, ju on to his ATV as I shook ripping onto his shoulders I wasn’t sure why I had ju body between hs Oh, yeah This probably wasn’t the best of ideas I was so attracted to hi havoc on my libido
Braxton and Austin took off ahead of us as Destry kicked the bike to life, the ru under us He reached up to wheretheht, sweetheart," he rumbled before we shot off into the fields I was acutely aware of the warh the deep blue cotton t-shirt Every buainst his e dip in the road hadsolidly in his lap With a cringe, I quickly righted h the green grass
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"What’s she doin’ up the tree?" Austin’s voice drifted up to where I was clihtly smaller lio I reached for the next one and lost the grip I had on the rough bark Grasping for purchase, I tipped backward and before I could right h the air
"Amelia!" Braxton’s panicked voice penetrated round with a thud and skidded on et my pick up Brax, first aid kit" Destry’s short bark seeped into y brain, his voice closer than the others were
I shifted with a groan andme in place stopped even that "For shit’s sake, don’tto understand what the heck his proble a tail and pointy ears, he’d suddenly become one