Broken Rebel (Sparrow Sisters Book 2) by Lora Richardson

Author:Lora Richardson [Richardson, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

My feet dangled off a huge block of limestone. I took a rock from the pile between Clay and I, and tossed it into the quarry. It made a satisfying splash.

“It’s hot. Let’s go swimming,” Graham said. He lay in his back on a block to my other side.

“We can’t. It’s dark,” Clay said.

“What difference does it make if it’s dark?”

“If you hit your head and go under when it’s daylight, we’d be able to pull you out. If you hit your head tonight, you’d sink and we’d never find you,” Clay said, his voice matter-of-fact.

We always had to talk Graham out of this kind of thing. It was too hot tonight to get annoyed.

“I’ve never in my entire life hit my head while swimming,” Graham said.

“You’d be more likely to hit it on a rock you couldn’t see because it’s dark,” I said.

Clay laughed. Graham sighed and tugged his shirt off.

“It’s not even that hot,” Clay said, tossing in a huge piece of limestone. A few of the drops splashed onto us, even from this distance, because the quarry was so deep.

“What’s Adam doing tonight?” I asked.

Clay tossed in a handful of smaller pebbles. “He said he and Rick were going to spend a wholesome night breaking into the hardware store and stealing all the power tools. I thumped him on the arm for being a sarcastic jerk, and he told me to get off his back.”

“Great.”

“Thing is, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually did break into the hardware store, just to spite me.”

“Yeah.”

“Where were you this afternoon, dude?” Graham asked. “You never showed up at Stacey’s to play cards.”

We played cards at Graham’s cousin Stacey’s house most Friday evenings. After work, I’d gone home for a shower and had been headed there when I saw Audrey and the dog on the sidewalk. “Francine Anglin’s dog got hurt in a hunting trap. Audrey found her, and we took her to the vet.”

Graham let out a low whistle. “Audrey again, man?”

I smiled, peace filling my whole body. I tipped my head back and looked at the stars in the clear sky. “Audrey again.”

“Why do you want a girl like that, Johnny?” Graham asked. “She doesn’t understand people like us.”

I thought about Alaska. Portugal. Waterfalls and Castles, hurt dogs, and warm brown eyes. I thought about how she wasn’t ashamed to be seen with me. It was possible she could understand me. More than I ever hoped she might.

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