A Match Made In Hell by Terri Garey

Author:Terri Garey [Garey, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-01T04:26:09+00:00

The fried chicken suddenly tasted dry. I knew it wasn't my fault that she hadn't had the happy childhood I had, but still…

"What was it like, living in foster homes?" Might as well not dance around it. I took another bite. "How many were there?"

"Three, mainly. I don't remember the first one very well—I was a baby. They were nice, I guess.

I was moved to a different foster home when I was four or five." Kelly put down her fork and reached for a glass of sweet tea. "The Bakers were nice people, too. I lived with them and a bunch of other foster kids until I was twelve or so." She took a sip of tea. "I knew they were never going to adopt me, though, so I was pretty happy when the Charons came into the picture. They picked me out of a photo album and came to meet me at an adoption picnic. A few weeks later they took me home."

Wow. I'd would have been scarred for life after being handed around like an unwanted kitten, but I didn't say it.

Kelly shrugged. "I'm not sure what happened. We never bonded, I guess. I tried to be a good daughter, but it just didn't seem to work out. We didn't get along. I even ran away a few times, but the cops always found me hanging around the bus station and brought me back. It's not like I had anywhere to go, anyway."

"Then what made you run away?" I was curious. She didn't seem angry at her adoptive parents, so they must not have been too bad.

"It wasn't their fault. I found out they'd lost a baby—a little girl—and I wasn't eager to be anybody's replacement kid. I always had the feeling they were disappointed in me, like they'd picked the wrong kid from the photo album and regretted it."

My throat tightened.

"I got good grades. Earned a scholarship, even, and worked my way through school." She glanced up, her look slightly sheepish. "I even married up, just to please them. But nothing ever did."

"Joe?"

Kelly put down her glass and leaned back. "I can't believe I'm sitting here spilling my guts like this." She gazed around the old‐fashioned diner, empty but for a couple of guys in the corner.

"We're supposed to be having fun."

"Oh no, you don't." No turning back now—fun could wait. "You married Joe to please your parents?"

"Partly." Kelly glanced at Joe through the window, then stared at the table. "I cared about him, but mainly I just wanted to get away. The Charons had never been further away than Macon, Georgia, and never would. Joe took me to Boston and I never went back."

How could she not have been wildly, madly in love with Joe Bascombe?

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