Fearless Rebel: A Hero Club Novel by Eden Butler & Hero Club

Author:Eden Butler & Hero Club [Butler, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Cocky Hero Club Novel
Publisher: Cocky Hero Club, Inc.
Published: 2021-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Piper

The Appaloosa was a pretty girl with a dominate coat so brown it was almost black and a spatter of white covering her back legs, rump and belly that reminded me of dark, quiet nights looking up at the sky, staring at nothing, letting my mind wonder.

Not that I did much of that anymore.

I called her Stardust, Dusty for short, because the name seemed fitting, and I tried not to worry much over the look Evie served me when Alex asked why I’d given my new horse that particular name. I didn’t volunteer a damn thing. Not that there was much to tell. My brother and his wife didn’t know much about me and stargazing or how often I liked to do it. Only one other person did, and I figured he wouldn’t be telling them a damn thing about it.

It was Dusty and working out the limp she had in her hind leg that had brought me out to my brother’s place so early this morning. I meant to tend to her, get her sorted before Alex or Evie had made it to the breakfast table, which I knew always came early. So when I headed to the paddock and had my girl moving into a good trot and spotted Evie’s number shooting across the screen, I figured my timing was off. If I didn’t know her better, maybe Evie was calling to rub salt in the wound that Crystal and Rey had thrown her a birthday party yesterday and no one had bothered to shoot me an invite. But Evie wasn’t petty. She wasn’t outright mean. I knew better.

Still, seeing the frilly signs with tiny flowers in the corners were still at the road and along the front porch, and deflated green and white balloons swept along the railings and hung from the screen door stung a little bit. Bet there was still cake. Wila’s on Tenth Street made the best cakes in town. Likely, it was Evie’s Auntie Queenie doing the baking. My mouth watered just thinking about that buttercream frosting.

I hadn’t expected a friendly greeting. Evie and I didn’t do those anymore, considering our friendship had been removed from the table the day she sided with her brother.

But I never expected the warning I got from my sister-in-law.

“Evie?” I asked, repressing a yawn as Dusty neighed and moved through the tender step.

“You gotta get out of here.” No sweet morning welcome. No get the hell off my property. Just that hurried, “Seriously, you might want to hustle.” It was the most Evie had spoken to me in five years.

“Do what?”

“I mean it. You’re gonna want to leave right now.”

Dusty trotted around me, and I gave her little notice. My attention was on my sister-in-law’s voice and the nervous tone that made her sound winded and a little worried. “Why on earth would I want…”

“Piper…” she started, speaking loud enough, her voice sharp enough that my own worry rose like a wave.

“Is it…”

“You should know what it is.

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