Controlled Burn (The Kilgore Fire Series Book 4) by Lani Lynn Vale

Author:Lani Lynn Vale [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Do you think the guy that invented vibrators heard voices say, “If you build it, they will come?”

-Random thoughts

July

My stomach was crawling with nerves as Dean pulled his shiny truck into the parking spot next to an old beat up truck that looked like it could compete in rock climbing contests on Mount Everest.

Or not.

But it was big and mean looking, so surely it served some sort of purpose, right?

Then again, in the South, where we were, everyone lifted their trucks. Even people whose trucks would likely never see a puddle of water, let alone mud.

My favorites were the cute little blondes who were the size of a toothpick with their jacked up trucks that they could barely maneuver through the Walmart parking lot, let alone a country road where mud would be involved.

Kind of like the girl who was getting out of her jacked up, new model Tahoe next to me with her cantaloupe-sized breasts and unnaturally blonde hair.

She didn’t look like that when we were in high school.

I swallowed thickly as I pushed my hair back over my shoulders.

I’d curled it and had worn it half up, half down, in a semi-updo that would allow the curls to float over my shoulders each time I moved.

I eyed the necklace, the same one I’d worn since high school, and grimaced tightly.

I should’ve taken it off.

It was the only diamond I had, and it hadn’t occurred to me that it’d been the same one everyone had teased me relentlessly about in high school.

“What’s wrong?” Dean asked, his eyes going from my necklace to me.

“I wasn’t very popular in high school,” I murmured softly, my fingers worrying the chain of the necklace as I spoke. “I hated it, in fact. I was the kid everyone loved to pick on and the whore of the trailer park, even though I’d never actually slept with anyone.”

When he didn’t say anything, I looked up at him and smiled at the scowl on his face.

“I wasn’t a whore, obviously,” I informed him. “But you’re going to hear a lot of whispers, I’m sure, and I wanted to warn you before you actually heard them. Don’t freak out. Don’t overreact. Just be calm.”

I looked up at him, and I could see his jaw clenched.

“I’ll tell you this now,” he murmured softly, reaching forward and grasping my hand with his. “If someone in there calls you a whore, and I hear it, I’m going to react to that and you’re going to let it happen. Got it, sweet cheeks?”

I snorted.

“They’ll send you to jail,” I told him. “They’re not worth it. Trust me.”

“What’s the worst thing they ever did to you?” he asked. “It can’t be worse than mine. When I was fourteen, I was all skinny legs and arms, a freaking beanpole,” he explained. “And I wanted to play football. When I went to tryouts, one of the seniors thought it’d be hilarious to sack me when I wasn’t paying attention and the ball wasn’t in play.

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