Crazy Love by Callie Bardot

Author:Callie Bardot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calinda B

Kennedy

Kennedy headed to the snack bar, her heart happy, her body on fire. He came to see me and brought his brother to meet me. He used to drive his brother nuts by talking about me. Clearly, Dante adored his younger brother. It shone all over his interactions with the young man. Damien seemed about nineteen? Twenty? And did he have autism? Dante mentioned his difficult birth, and she wondered what his diagnosis could be. Whatever, it was sweet to see Dante’s obvious affection.

She practically skipped across the animal compound. Until she saw Dante’s face. He stared at his phone screen with obvious displeasure, a dark, broody expression marring his handsome features. “Dante?” she said. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

His head lifted, and he blinked as if having to re-focus his eyes from the faraway place that captured his attention. He swiftly pocketed his phone.

Is it another girl? Kennedy fidgeted with the radio at her hip.

Dante shook his head and pasted on a smile. “Sorry. I just got a text from a friend. It threw me for a loop.”

“We’re going to the science museum. Can we go now?” Damien said to her.

“You are?” she said, turning her attention to Damien, her insides now churning with anxiety. “I love that place. I have the soul of a geek, only mine is more obsessed with the natural world and such.”

“Do you?” His brother, a somewhat disheveled, yet still handsome version of Dante, lit up at hearing her confession.

“Sure do. As a matter of fact, I was just there with my brother.”

“No way,” Damien said.

“Way. I saw a cool exhibit on bats. And they have a really amazing art exhibit on biodiversity.” She glanced over to see Dante scrutinizing her in a manner that didn’t make her feel warm and cozy.

“Biodiversity,” Damien said, “is the variety of different types of life found on Earth and the variations within species. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in different ecosystems. This can refer to genetic variation, ecosystem variation, or species variation (number of species) within an area, biome, or planet.”

“Wow,” Kennedy said. “That sounds like something Wikipedia would say.” She eyed the scarred slash that ran along his forehead, disappearing into his messy hair.

“It is. Word for word.”

“He’s got a remarkable recall of some things,” Dante said, shifting the attention back in his brother’s direction.

“Yeah,” Damien agreed. “I can’t remember certain things, though. I fell a couple years ago and lost…”

“Right,” Dante interrupted. “He lost some of his memory. Hey, buddy,” he said to his brother. “Why don’t you get us a couple of ice cream bars. You want anything, Kennedy?”

“No, thank you.” Her eyes slid between the two brothers, wondering what, exactly, wasn’t meant for her to hear.

After Damien skittered away, Dante turned to her, heat returning to his eyes.

She took a step back from the intensity emanating from him. “It looked like an upsetting text message. The one you were looking at when I approached.”

“It was nothing.”

Total lie, she thought.

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