Betting On Us by Kelly Collins

Author:Kelly Collins [Collins, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I’d almost forgotten how good a decent night of sleep could be. Though I knew my life was likely going to get a lot worse before it got better, I felt refreshed. After all, I’d been charged with a dangerous crime I hadn’t committed. I couldn’t leave the city. I couldn’t work. Someone who may be involved in the crime I was framed for had broken into my apartment. They took away the only physical evidence I was my mother’s one and only daughter…

Then my attempt to run away with the man I loved had been botched. One could say there were no circumstances under which I could feel better today, and yet I did. Maybe it was the excessive crying, or maybe it was the fact that I knew Rafe reciprocated my feelings. Maybe it was because Katya and I had talked well into the night until we both fell into an exhausted sleep. Maybe it was all of them. Whatever the cause, I felt like I could tackle anything thrown my way today, which could only be a good thing.

Katya wasn’t lying beside me when I woke up. The sound of running water from my bathroom told me where my half-sister was. Wondering what time it was, I picked up my cell phone from the bedside table, only to discover it had no charge left.

“Katya, do you have a phone charger?” I called out, loudly enough that she could hear me above the water.

“In my bag,” she managed to gurgle out. Clearly, she was brushing her teeth. Chuckling at the noise she made, I walked over to her bag and got her charger, impatiently waiting for my phone to turn back on once I plugged it in. When the time flashed on the screen, I clucked my tongue in annoyance. It was well past noon.

I had wasted so much of the day already, but I’d needed the sleep.

When Katya vacated the bathroom, I went in and freshened up, then signaled for Katya to join me for breakfast in the kitchen.

“Surely, we’re getting lunch, considering the time,” she said wryly as we made our way down the stairs.

“Ah, but technically the first thing you eat in a day, regardless of the time, is breakfast. You’re breaking your fast and all that.”

She rolled her eyes. “Of course you’re a ‘technically’ person. At least you seem to be doing better.”

“Much better, all things considered.”

The kitchen was an odd sight to behold, to say the least. My father and two brothers sat at the kitchen table with Rafe, who to my surprise didn’t look nearly as awkward as I would have expected.

“I didn’t realize you stayed the night, Rafe,” I said as we locked eyes. He smiled slightly.

“I couldn’t pass up your father’s hospitality, especially given how late it was.”

Ah, so they’d stayed up late, too. Eyeing the four men at the table, I noticed all of them looked somewhat haggard and sleep-deprived. Something told me alcohol had been involved.

When Katya and I sat down, Clara brought over a fresh pile of pancakes.

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