Break: Bend & Break Duet Book 2 (Shaken 6) by Grahame Claire

Author:Grahame Claire [Claire, Grahame]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951878191
Publisher: Grahame Claire
Published: 2021-10-25T18:30:00+00:00

“Your ma can whistle like this guy.” Pop pointed to my radio.

“She can?” In all the times we’d heard this song, I didn’t remember her ever whistling.

“Yeah. Did I ever tell you that’s how I fell in love with her?”

I shook my head and looked across the truck at him.

“We were in junior high. I can’t even remember who started the fight, but it turned into an all-out brawl.”

I tried to imagine Pop in a rumble. He didn’t back down from a fight, but I’d never seen him raise a fist.

“This ear-splitting whistle bounced off the gym walls. You know how it echoes in there.”

I nodded. I did. It was awful off the concrete block walls.

“There she was. Standing at the top of the bleachers. She had on a blue dress and Coke-bottle glasses.” He rubbed his jaw. “Donny landed a sucker punch to my face. Damn near broke my jaw. But I couldn’t see anything but her.”

“You knew her before that though, right?”

“Sort of. She was a couple of grades below me.” There was a wistful look on his face. “I took those bleacher steps two at a time and told her she was gonna marry me.”

He chuckled as if he were back in a memory a lifetime ago. “She pushed me and told me to get lost. I won her over with flowers and carrying her books around. Do you know how much shit a guy gets following a girl around like a puppy?”

Yeah. At one point, I’d dished it out to my buddies who’d gotten hearts in their eyes. And I’d definitely given a hard time to my brothers.

“How did I not know any of this?”

“Because your ma likes the version where I nearly crapped my pants asking her dad to take her on a date.”

I couldn’t imagine Pop being scared of anybody.

“Plus, she doesn’t like to admit I was right. She married me, didn’t she?” He smirked, but he didn’t give a damn about being right or wrong. He just wanted Ma happy.

“You won.”

“Luckiest bastard on the planet.” He rolled down the window. “Someday a woman is gonna knock you for a loop. And when she does, you give her flowers every chance you get. It doesn’t seem like much, but it makes up for the things you can’t give her.”

I tilted my head to the side. There were always fresh flowers at the house. Didn’t matter if Pop was dog-tired after a long shift, he never forgot Ma’s flowers.

“I hated listening to my old man, especially now when I see how right he was about everything. But trust me. Flowers. She’ll be yours forever.”

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