Earlie (Sisters of Soil Book 1) by Holly Thorne

Author:Holly Thorne [Thorne, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-24T23:00:00+00:00

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Kenzie stood in the dim of the kitchen, watching her mum gardening from the open doorway. She was leaning over a clump of weeds, trowel in hand. On her fingers were the patterned gardening gloves Kenzie had got her a few Christmases back.

For some nonsensical reason, the sight angered her.

A kernel had been blooming in her gut since her meeting with Earlie. Now she was here, back home, with her mum in her eyeline, she all but tingled with the need to say her bit. It was rare she ever spoke out against her mum; they generally had a very agreeable relationship but she resented that now. She resented it with her whole heart.

Blowing out a breath, Kenzie entered the garden.

‘Mum?’

‘Yep?’

‘I’m not going to Auntie Lynne’s.’ Her hands curled at her sides.

‘What?’ Her mum looked up, squinting in the sun. ‘’Course you are.’

Kenzie shook her head. ‘No, I’m not. I’m not going.’

‘Kenzie, love, you are. We’ve had this planned for months now.’

‘I’m not going. Just listen to me.’

Kenzie’s mum paused, straightening up. ‘Why do you not want to?’

‘Because—there’s only a few weeks until I go to uni and a few weeks until Earlie’s holiday ends and she goes home and I want to spend as much time with her as I can.’ Now she’d said it, she hoped the frantic beating of her heart would calm, but it only sped up.

‘Earlie?’ Her mum scoffed lightly. ‘You’ve known Auntie Lynne all your life, think she comes before some girl you’ve just met.’

The anger in Kenzie’s gut churned. ‘Fuck you, Mum. I’m not going, alright. Why don’t you just fucking listen for once?’

‘Kenzie!’ Her mum’s eyes widened, trowel limp in her hand.

‘You should probably shut your mouth before someone punches it.’

‘What the hell has gotten into you?’ Her mum’s voice rose.

‘You, for fuck’s sake!’ Kenzie threw up her arms and took a step backwards. Her heart thumped hard, a headache rising to match. The churning turned to a roil. She was out of control, and she couldn’t stop and she hated it and fuck it felt so good. The words began tumbling out of her. ‘Why would I want to go on holiday with you and Auntie Lynne, anyway? You’re both pathetic. Both single and lonely. Desperate. Do you know how gross it is to go to the pub with the two of you and watch you leer at guys all night? Married guys, guys who wouldn’t look twice at you. It’s fucking gross!’

‘Kenzie,’ her mum whispered.

‘What? It is gross.’ Kenzie laughed slightly. ‘You’re so damn embarrassing. I hate going out with you sometimes, you know. You never dress nice, your hair is always so bloody messy. Try and brush it sometime! You’re only forty but you look more like sixty in those baggy dresses you always wear.’ Kenzie ran her eyes over the mud-smeared dress her mum wore now, lip curled in a sneer.

Her mum was shaking her head. Her cheeks were red with anger and there were tears in her eyes.

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