A Lot Like Heaven by Kathryn Cantrell

Author:Kathryn Cantrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Brazoria House Books
Published: 2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Aurora sank to the ground heavily and Blake had the impression if she could have disappeared into the dirt, she would have. Misery pulled at her mouth, which lanced right through his gut.

Obviously, she didn’t really want to have this discussion.

Smooth move, Keller. He’d pushed her too hard in his quest to make sure no one on his watch had any reason to be less than okay. Typical. Now he had to fix it.

“Let’s do this instead,” he countered and handed her a sandwich without looking at it because whatever lay between the slices of bread was secondary. “For the next ten minutes, you are prohibited from telling me one single thing that’s true. Start with your childhood. Or pick a teen years episode. Tell me a story that’s outrageously removed from reality.”

Aurora blinked and shook her head hard as if she’d just emerged from a dunking under the water of the springs. “You want me to what?”

“You heard me. True confessions can wait. Lie your butt off. Don’t you dare tell me a single thing that’s even close to accurate.”

He couldn’t wait to hear what she came up with. This was a game he used to play with Emerson and the guys while they’d been in captivity. It was an enormously successful tactic to get their minds off reality. Maximum had always come up with the most outlandish stories, not that anyone had ever doubted his flair for the dramatic.

Her face scrunched up as she opened her sandwich, which must be her thinking face. It shouldn’t be so adorable. He got busy with his own sandwich, opting to give her a moment to acclimate to the rules of the game.

“There was this time,” she began slowly, “when I was getting ready for prom and my dad wanted to take a picture, but he couldn’t find his camera. That was in the days before phones had cameras, and he didn’t have one anyway. He would have hated the idea of keeping up with a cell phone.”

Would have? Blake blinked at the phrasing but didn’t call her on it. “Who was your date?”

“To the prom?” Aurora cocked her head, one finger tapping at her lips as if she was searching her memory banks for the dude’s name. “It was um… Tim Richards. The quarterback for our football team. Man, he was dreamy. All the girls wanted to go out with him but he picked me.”

She was really getting into the spirit of the game, which he appreciated. If nothing else, that air of despair had vanished, and that had really been his goal. “He was a real prize, huh?”

“Oh, yeah, the best.” Her half smile had a goofy quality to it that might make a guy sitting with her on a picnic in the present feel a little jealous—if any of this were actually true. “He drove a Corvette. His parents were loaded. Anyway, we couldn’t find the camera, so when Tim showed up, my dad said we should go ahead and pose for the picture so he could capture it in his memory instead.

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