A Fair to Remember by Stacey Joy Netzel

Author:Stacey Joy Netzel [Netzel, Stacey Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 2940012811110
Goodreads: 12109683
Publisher: Stacey Joy Netzel
Published: 2011-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Tara glared at Charlie as she lifted her first steaming cup of coffee for a cautious sip. If only it were the last one of the morning, then she could be on the way home instead of having this conversation about Wes with her overbearing family. It didn’t matter anyway, he didn’t want her, but she wasn’t about to let them know that. She’d keep that hurt to herself.

“Did you know he’s in a gang?” Charlie asked as if he’d been waiting for just the right moment to drop that little bomb.

She gulped her coffee and burned her tongue.

“A gang?” her dad roared.

Even her mom paused.

Charlie nodded as he spread jam on his toast. “From Detroit.”

“He said that?” Tara demanded, trying hard not to let anyone know her mouth was on fire. “He actually came out and told you?” She took a long drink of cold orange juice.

Charlie shrugged, confident in the support he had from their father. “He claims he left, but he’s still got the tatt, and you know what they say…”

“He lives in Denver—I saw his driver’s license,” Tara argued, even as she pictured every intricate detail of the dragon on Wes’s shoulder. A gang tattoo.

“You can take the boy out of the gang, but you can never really take the gang out of the boy,” her dad prophesized in a low tone.

Tara thought about the way Wes had handled Kenny and Adam. She pictured the scar she’d glimpsed on his back and wondered if it was from a bullet. And if it was, fresh-looking as it’d been, maybe he hadn’t left the gang as he’d told Charlie.

I’m not that nice…There’s a lot you don’t know about me…

Tara shook off her doubt. No, she couldn’t be wrong about him. Or…was it that she didn’t want to be wrong?

“I don’t want you seeing this guy again,” her father stated.

She glanced at her mom, who usually stuck up for her but had kept quiet so far this morning. Jackie met her gaze. “We don’t want you getting mixed up with trouble, honey.”

Her soft tone implied what none of them would ever say. Like Annabel.

Tara fought frustration. She wasn’t Annabel and Wes wasn’t trouble. They’d met him for all of two minutes; they didn’t get to know him as she—

She stopped that train of thought and reminded herself that she didn’t really know Wes that well, either, no matter what she felt when she was with him. Especially considering that all the while she’d tingled from what she thought was an undercurrent of sizzling, mutual attraction, he simply thought of her as ‘nice’. She’d felt like a complete idiot for throwing herself at him only to have him push her away.

“He’s a lying piece of dirt,” Charlie muttered around a bite of bacon. “Telling me you aren’t his type but then I find out he went back to the fair with you.”

Tara sat up straighter. “What?”

Charlie drank half of his glass of milk before pointing his fork at her.

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