Cabin Fever by Avery Duncan

Author:Avery Duncan [Duncan, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Jude

Ellie came storming back into the farmhouse like a fire of fury was running through her.

“Ellie?” Charlie asked.

She glared at him as she took off her coat and her boots. “Fuck him, Charlie. Fuck him and fuck you too.”

She grabbed her work bag, and she stormed past me, knocking me in the arm roughly as she did, her footfall heavy on every single stair as she made her way upstairs and then a slamming of a bedroom door.

When I turned to ask Charlie if he knew what the fuck was going on, he was pulling on his coat and boots and heading out the door in the direction of the barn and Finn.

What the fuck is going on?

I set about making a cup of hot chocolate. Ellie had been in the barn a while, and I figured she might be cold, and mum always said that the best thing we could ever do for Daphne when she was pissed off, was get her chocolate to say sorry, maybe it would help Ellie too.

I carefully carried the mugs of cocoa upstairs, and I looked around for the door that had been slammed closed. My room. Perfect. I moved the cup handles to one hand, and I opened the door, hoping I wouldn’t be in the firing line for Ellie’s anger once I did.

“I thought you might like something to warm you up.” I smiled holding the mug up for her to see.

“Thanks, Jude.” She pouted.

“Want to tell me what brought all this on?”

She shook her head. “Not really.”

I nodded. “Okay.”

“Why are your brothers such dickheads?”

“Dropped on their heads at birth? Honestly, I’m not really sure.”

She smiled with a hint of laughter at my comment.

“Anything in particular that they have done to make them rank up there of your Dickheads of the Day list?”

“Maybe.” She frowned.

“You know, when I was a kid, I really wanted this one toy for Christmas. Christmas Day came and went, and that fat bastard in the red suit hadn’t produced a thing. Charlie got some money for Christmas that year, and Mum took him out shopping in the January sales. Well, needless to say, Charlie got that toy that I had been wanting, and all he did was tell me how good it was to play with it, but I wasn’t allowed to look at it or touch it, because it was his, and I was his kid brother.”

“I’m not a toy.”

I leaned against her arm with mine, feeling her sorrow. “No, you’re something far more precious, and if we can all fight hard over a toy, just think about what we would do for the heart of a fair maiden.”

I had just outed us all. Even myself. It really didn’t matter, as long as she got the idea.

“Jude, you know how I write books?”

I raised an eyebrow unsure of where this was going. “It might have come up in conversation once or twice, yes.”

“Well there’s this genre, now, I don’t write it, but it’s really popular.

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