Fire and Rain, Season 2, Episode 5 (Rising Storm) by R.K. Lilley

Author:R.K. Lilley [Lilley, R.K.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, small town, drama, rising storm, Texas, R.K. Lilley
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2016-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Dakota Alvarez woke up feeling better than she had in ages. The best she’d felt since her father had left.

She smiled and stretched. He’d come back. Moreover, they’d found out that it had never even been his choice to leave her. That bastard sheriff had forced him to, and she just knew her daddy would find a way to get even.

She had faith in him. Daddy would make everyone that had wronged them pay, even if it was a long list.

She was in too good of a mood to focus on the negative. Her daddy was back for good. That was what was important. He was here for Dakota, and her life was starting to feel right again.

Any day now, she’d hear back from Courtney, the owner of Pink. She figured she pretty much already had the job. Any idiot could see that she was perfect for the position. Who better to sell clothes than someone who looked damned good in them?

Dakota got out of bed, noting that it was the earliest she’d done so since she’d been fired from the bank.

This was a new chapter. Daddy was home, and things were finally going to start going her way again.

She showered and dressed.

She could smell bacon cooking, the aroma filling the house. Good. At least her worthless mother was trying. Joanne was a screw-up, but even she seemed to have gotten the message that she needed to step it up in the wife department. Her mom hadn’t been such a loser while Hector was gone. Maybe she’d put some of that energy into being a decent wife and they’d all be the better for it.

“Where’s Daddy?” Dakota asked her mom as she entered the kitchen. She’d only come out to see him and instead was greeted by her tired-looking mother.

“I’m not sure. He stepped out.”

She studied Joanne with a critical eye. The woman looked awful: no makeup, hair a mess, face swollen, and eyes red.

Just when Dakota had been giving her the benefit of the doubt, thinking her mom was actually trying by make things better, she found her like this. “You look awful, Mom,” she said bluntly, annoyed. Her mom always ruined everything. “Why don’t you ever try to look decent for Dad? You had no trouble putting yourself together to go to work every day when he was gone. Did you have to let yourself go the instant your husband comes home?”

“I didn’t sleep well,” Joanne mumbled, stirring a large batch of eggs on the stove and not looking at her.

Dakota sneered, more than ready to lay into her again, when her phone rang.

It was Courtney from Pink.

Dakota smiled, mood improved instantly, and strode out of the kitchen, down the hall, and into her bedroom.

She answered with a bright, “Hello.”

“Hello, Dakota,” Courtney’s polite voice responded. “How are you?”

“I’m great,” she said. “Do you have some news for me?”

“I’m afraid so,” Courtney replied. “I just called to let you know that I will not be hiring you at this time.

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