Fighting For Carly by Deanndra Hall

Author:Deanndra Hall [Hall, Deanndra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00

They lay there in the dark bedroom, only the nightlight from the cracked-open bathroom door offering a little illumination. Every pass of his tongue over her wetness had offered him a sweetness he’d never known before, not just from the taste of her juices, but from the moans and sighs with which he was rewarded. Every touch, every taste, every kiss, every sigh, he cherished them and held them in his heart. No woman had ever affected him the way she did, and he wanted more. He could only hope she felt the same way about him.

Her finger drifted down his cheek and he turned to suck it into his mouth. That made her laugh. “So,” she said as she relaxed into his side, “tell me about Kentucky. Tell me about your family.”

“Ahhh, Kentucky. You’ve never been there?”

“No.”

“Well, let’s see … The part where I live is in the foothills of the Appalachians.”

“Same mountain range as the Great Smoky Mountains, right?”

“Yep. It’s beautiful, really. Lots of trees, lots of limestone and shale, lots of rivers and lakes. It’s also really, really poor. There’s not a lot of industry, and the people aren’t very well-educated. I mean, the school systems are fine. It’s just that they don’t place a lot of importance on education. They’re too busy trying to get by. Teen pregnancy touches almost every family, and drug use is rampant. Oxycodone, mostly, but now heroin too, and still a lot of meth. As first responders, we all carry NARCAN in our bags. Intranasal delivery.”

“Yeah, they’re telling us we should start carrying it in our cruisers.”

“Not a bad idea. The opioid epidemic in our area has drifted into the hopeless range. All we can try to do is keep the overdosers alive and pray nobody else gets hold of their stash. We can’t keep physicians. They keep getting popped for illegal prescribing or over-prescribing. Some of them come there to make money that way, but a lot of them just don’t understand how bad the problem is. They fall prey to patients who doctor shop and lie to get what they want. All the physicians are now in the KASPER system, so they get caught if they’re fucking up. As a result, sometimes we have to drive fifty miles to get to a doctor’s office, and all the clinics are gone. It’s a real problem.”

“That’s so sad. So what about your family?”

“My dad’s the technical coordinator for a big grocery chain. If some piece of equipment isn’t working, or the computer system is down, he’s the one who gets a call. It’s a twenty-four/seven job, but he loves it. Makes good money too. Mom works at a nursing home. My brother is the success story of the family—he’s a chiropractor. He does really well because a lot of people go to him, since there’s no doctor there. My sister and her husband own a burger joint in town and do okay with that.”

“You’re the oldest?”

“Nope. Youngest. My sister’s the oldest.”

“Awww. Baby boy.

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