Breaking Bones (Mariani Crime Family Series Book 2) by Amanda Washington

Author:Amanda Washington [Washington, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Ariana

MY SISTER HAS always had a soft spot for kids, which is like saying casinos have a soft spot for money or SUVs have a soft spot for gas. Markie seems to need kids around her to survive, almost like she thrives on helping them and doing things for them. Growing up, she was one of those weird kids who would break plans with her friends to babysit, and not because she needed the money. She was crazy. Which was why—on a night when I was finally exhausted enough to sleep—she was talking my ear off, agonizing about Angel’s siblings and wondering how she could possibly drag him away from them.

“Drag him away?” I asked. The visual her words created made me giggle. Angel towered over Markie, and outweighed her by a good fifty pounds. “If he’s the type of man you can ‘drag’ anywhere, you need to dump that loser. Yesterday.”

She sighed. “You know what I mean.”

“Uh, I don’t even think you know what you mean, because you just insinuated that your boyfriend is some spineless jellyfish, who’s abandoning his family to be with his girlfriend. And that’s not the type of guy my sister would date.”

“Angel’s not like that at all,” she defended, rolling over to face me.

No, he wasn’t. Angel wasn’t as tough or scary as Bones, but he wasn’t a pushover either. He was perfect for Markie, and he practically worshiped the ground she walked on. “Don’t look at me. I didn’t say he was.”

I watched her out of the corner of my eye. It felt so weird to share a bed with Markie again. After our mom died and we moved in with our uncle, I used to sneak into her bed every night. It was silly and immature since we were in high school, but after losing both of our parents, I was afraid I’d lose her, too. But I didn’t lose Markie. She left, first to college, and then to Africa. I was angry when she moved into the dorm, and devastated when she got onto the plane. Especially since I knew she had cancer and I would probably never see her again. Now here she was, healthy, madly in love with Angel, and trying to take care of kids who weren’t her responsibility.

“I wish there was something I could do to help them,” she said.

“You can’t help everyone, you know?”

She frowned. “Yeah, I know. I need to get back to the orphanage. That’ll make me feel better.”

“I don’t think you’re quite ready for that yet. When do you go to the doc next?”

“Friday the fourth.”

The fourth was the day after my birthday. If the doctor gave Markie a clean bill of health, she, Angel, and Bones would be clear to leave Vegas. I didn’t want them to leave, which made me feel needy and co-dependent. Did Bones even want me to go? Sometimes it seemed like he didn’t even want to be in the same room with me. I missed our easy friendship and wished I’d never kissed him on Sunrise Mountain and screwed it up.

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