For the Love of an Outlaw by T. S. Joyce

Author:T. S. Joyce [Joyce, T. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wicked Willow Press
Published: 2017-11-15T18:30:00+00:00

Grocery shopping

Snow boots and warmer jacket

Settle the general store bill

Settle the bar tab at the GutShot

Trigger squinted, as if trying to read it from way over there, but Ava just shoved it back in her purse and made her way toward the row of clothing shops down the street. Snow boots next, and then she was going to the bar.

“You can’t fix everything, Ava!” Trig called.

“Watch me!” Oh, ye of little faith. She would show him. The grocery store was the tip of the iceberg. She jammed her pointer finger in the air and repeated out loud. “The tip!”

She heard the ridiculously loud engine of Trig’s truck roar to life, and good. He should leave. She was mad enough to breath fire, and she would barbecue his ass if he talked to her right now.

She was neck-deep in her fury, slipping and sliding down the sidewalk on the other side of the parking lot, when Trigger pulled up beside her. The man didn’t get the hint. She wasn’t some girl whose anger was short-lived, no. She got embarrassed, hurt, and then she had a long fuse that burned slowly. He was barking up the wrong damn tree if he was looking to make amends right now.

“Go away,” she said, refusing to look at him as he coasted right beside her.

“Get on in the truck, and we’ll talk about this. Talk about why your face is so red and you look pissed off.”

“Hard pass. I want to be left alone right now.” These shoes hurt. Her ankle almost went ninety degrees twice as she hit ice on the sidewalk, and she was cold thanks to the windchill, but she would die of hypothermia before she got in that truck right now.

“You’re stubborn, Ava Dorset.”

And there went that fuse. “Takes one to know one!”

“I didn’t use stubborn as a noun!”

“Aaah!” she shrieked. And because her rage was infinite, she scooped up a handful of snow, packed it quick, and chucked it at his open window before she could stop herself. Only she missed the direct hit to that jerk-faced ninny, and it hit the edge of the door and exploded all over Trigger’s face. The truck skidded to a stop, and whoa, now he looked mad. His eyes were fiery and bright, and his face had twisted into something fearsome.

“You want to know what’s going on?” he growled in a gravelly voice.

Ava crossed her arms over her tits. “Yes.”

“You really, really think you can stomach the truth behind this town?”

“Yes!”

“Even if it involves your brother? Even if it involves everyone you grew up with? Even if it will change your entire view on the world? Even if I know—know—you’ll wish you could go back and realize ignorance is bliss? You still want me to spill it?”

Well, that sounded fourteen percent intimidating, but she stomped one shoe in the snow, nearly rolled her ankle, and firmly nodded once. “Yes.”

Trigger took off his hat and tossed it in the passenger’s seat, then ran his hand down his snowy face.

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