Heart Breaths by Hendin KK

Author:Hendin, KK [Hendin, KK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, New Adult
ISBN: 9781492947974
Published: 2013-11-01T23:00:00+00:00

“How come you never told me you could sing?” Sam demanded as we drove back to town.

I shrugged. “Didn’t think it was so important,” I said. I hadn’t sung for years. I barely remembered that I knew how to.

“Didn’t think it was so important?” she echoed, staring at me incredulously. “Maddie, you’re like, a superstar!”

“No, not really,” I said, laughing. “Just someone who likes singing.”

“I like to sing, too, but I sound like a dead frog,” Chris said as he drove down the highway.

“You don’t sound like a dead frog,” Sam protested.

Chris raised an eyebrow.

“Okay, you sound like a dying frog,” she said, giggling as he reached over to tickle her. “What? You started it!”

“Well, you’re right,” he said. “So there is that.”

I smiled. “I’m sure you’re not that bad.”

“Trust me when I say that Chris has many, many talents,” drawled Sam. “Singing is just not on the list.”

“Many, many talents,” he echoed, wiggling his eyebrows.

“Get a room!” I yelled, clapping my hand over my eyes and laughing.

“Prude,” Sam teased me.

“Yup.”

I blushed as I thought of my very unprude-like behavior a few days ago. It’s a good thing Sam didn’t know.

“So, what other talents have you been hiding?” Sam asked, leaning back in her seat as we drove back toward town.

I shrugged. “None that I know of,” I said, lying.

“Liar.”

“Not really.”

“You’re impossible, you know,” she said. “If you’re not careful, I’m going to sneak into your room one night and threaten you with scissors.”

“You’re not coming anywhere near my head with your scissors, young lady,” I said. “Keep your hair-cutting trigger finger to yourself.”

“New plan for this summer,” Sam teased, reaching over and swatting at me gently. “Get Maddie drunk enough to pull the stick out of her ass.”

I burst into laughter. Should I have been offended? Maybe. But Sam’s honesty was a welcome change from the fake cheerfulness of the dumb debutantes that I had been forced into spending time with before. And there was a stick up my ass.

“What are you doing tomorrow?” she asked as the car pulled up in front of the darkened café.

“Work?”

“After work,” she said, leaning out the window.

“I don’t know,” I said. Start my Sudoku book, maybe? Finally burn the stupid New York Times? I didn’t know. I would think of something productive. Of course, I could also mope around and cry.

That was always an option.

“Well, I have an idea,” she said, her eyes twinkling.

“Oh, Lord,” I groaned. “This is not a good idea.”

“Excuse me. Every idea I’ve had so far was brilliant, and you know it,” she said, sticking her tongue out at me.

“If Chris says it’s okay, than maybe,” I said. “But I don’t know if I can trust him anymore either.”

Chris burst into laughter. “I am firmly planted under her thumb,” he said, reaching over to kiss Sam’s cheek.

“You’re whipped,” I nodded, feeling an easy camaraderie with the two of them I hadn’t had with anyone in years. I hadn’t just lost Ravi and Devi that day—I lost my friends then, too.

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