Just a Taste by Tawna Fenske & Erin Nicholas & Kait Nolan & J.H. Croix & Lili Valente

Author:Tawna Fenske & Erin Nicholas & Kait Nolan & J.H. Croix & Lili Valente [Fenske, Tawna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-28T18:30:00+00:00

Athena held out for two days, recovering from the mutant hangover and the simple, earth-shattering shock of finding out Logan now owned her family’s farm. She’d pulled out impressive avoidance tactics, even for her, to keep from discussing anything about him, the farm, or the mess in Chicago with her sisters. But by the time Maggie’s name flashed across her phone—again—she understood her time was up. The options were to talk to Maggie or become the object of a family intervention.

She answered the phone. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

“Color me surprised. Pru told me about the farm. How are you feeling about all that?”

Her shoulders hunched up around her ears. “You know I hate the F word.”

“Don’t make me come out there.”

She would, if she thought it necessary. But Maggie had already flown back to Tennessee so many times the past year—in the aftermath of Mom’s death, all the insanity around custody of Ari, Kennedy and Xander’s wedding, Ari’s adoption, the holidays, and Pru and Flynn’s wedding. Athena knew she’d be in hot water with her boss if she took more leave anytime soon.

She blew out a breath. “I’m…I don’t know what I am.”

“The word you’re probably looking for is ‘upset’. That thing you like to pretend you never are.”

“Okay, fine. I’m upset. It really threw me for a loop.” Understatement of the year. But she wasn’t about to admit she’d been shaken to her very foundation by something so simple as waking up in her childhood bedroom.

“What’s bothering you the most about this? You had to know it would’ve been sold to someone, the land worked by someone.”

“Of course I knew that. On some level, anyway. But knowing and seeing are two different things.” All that effort she’d spent not to see, not to look, undone.

“Is it that it’s different than you remember? Home but not really?”

That trod far too close to the psychobabble she’d been avoiding since she went into the foster system. Her hands automatically fisted. “I don’t know.”

Maggie ignored the snappish tone. “Maybe you should go out there again to see it without hangover goggles. Nobody’s their best when the entire percussion section of an orchestra is pounding away in their skull.”

“Maybe.” Maybe she really did need to face the past in a way she’d never had the chance to do. But facing the past meant facing Logan after she’d spilled her guts about all that emotional…crap. Was she ready for that?

“What was that about, anyway? You haven’t been that drunk since right after Mom died.”

She hadn’t been that drunk even then.

The temptation to tell Maggie everything about Jayson and losing Olympus and the damned video—well on its way to a million views by now—was almost overwhelming. Her sister was a champion problem solver. Hell, it was what she did for a living out there in California. She’d have some kind of action plan put together inside a week.

But Athena simply wasn’t ready.

“I’m going through some stuff.”

“You know I’m here for you. For anything. Always.

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