Game of Hearts (Stacked Deck Book 3) by Emilia Finn

Author:Emilia Finn [Finn, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Beelieve Publishing, Pty Ltd
Published: 2020-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Lucy

Routine

“Bean?” Daddy’s booming voice makes me jump on my way out the door.

He steps into the foyer of our home, loops a large hand around my forearm, and swings me around so fast that my feet lift off the ground for a second, and I come flying back around only to crash into his chest with an oomph .

“Shit.” I giggle and press a hand to my chest to slow the way it races so painfully fast. “You scared me.”

“Where the hell are you going?” His chocolate eyes flash with a mixture of curiosity and playfulness.

Biology aside, it makes me happy that Jimmy Kincaid has dark brown eyes, just like mine. His hair is dark, his limbs are long. He and I share no blood, and yet, no one ever questions our relationship, because we look alike anyway.

I know not belonging has always been something that has played on Smalls’ mind. At least I look like a Kincaid, like my brother. But Smalls is the Kincaid opposite – she’s light to their dark. Blonde, blue-eyed, porcelain skin, while her sisters got the Kincaid genes. So whenever we were out as a group growing up, especially when Daddy and Uncle Aiden would take us out, everyone looked like a Kincaid except Evie. She was the lighthouse standing amongst us all. She was the most beautiful, the most striking and noticeable. Which is something I’ve had to live with – the fact I blend into the background whenever she’s near – but in exchange, she’s had to battle being different.

We both got those short straws. We both had our dragons to slay.

But as I stare into Kincaid eyes now, I smile, because he’s always made me feel like I belong.

“Hey, Daddy.” I step toward him, when he expects me to back away, and wrap my arms around his stomach with so much strength that he grunts. But then he does that thing I love the most. He presses his lips to the top of my hair, exhales, and bathes my scalp with hot air. “I’m sorry I’m always so busy.”

“You’re home every single day,” he murmurs. “And yet, I feel like I never see you.”

“I know, I’m sorry. I have so much going on, so many balls to juggle.” I take a step back. “Everything will be easier after Christmas. I get to drop school soon, which means no more travel. No more homework. I get to be home, back in the gym, where I can go back to training more than an hour a day a few days a week.”

“You’ve been in the gym way more than that lately.”

“I know. Stacked Deck is coming, so we have to prepare. Smalls has got me running around doing some admin for that, then add in my training, Mac’s training, plus studying for my finals, and I don’t have much time for home.” I frown. “I’m sorry, Daddy.”

“It’s okay.” He pulls me back into the warm cocoon of his arms, and presses a kiss to my brow.

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