Just as Stubborn by Jeanne Arnold

Author:Jeanne Arnold [Arnold, Jeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

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“I figured it out on the ride over,” Gabe huffed as he hightailed to the Mustang through the busy lot. “I knew there was more to this effed up story.”

“You knew she was your sister?” I called after him.

I was limping again. My brain hadn’t processed that my leg had made a full recovery.

“She acts just like Caleb, doesn’t she?”

“Who?” I asked. “You mean Deliah?”

“Wait!” Deliah caught up to me. Gabe kept moving. “Please wait! I need to talk to you.”

“Gabe, hold up. Don’t you want to talk to her?” I said.

“Get in. I gotta get out of here now,” he called across the roof, his voice annoyed. He slammed the door and revved the engine, sparking a course of dread to shoot through my limbs.

“Can I come with you, oh, please?” Deliah begged. “I just want to see where y’all live.”

“Gabe?” I opened the passenger side door and bent down. The car was low to the ground. “She wants to come with us. Let her explain. It might help.”

He didn’t respond.

Caleb set his hand on my shoulder and startled me. I spun around to face him.

“He’s losing it,” I started to say when he tapped my lips with his finger.

“He already lost it, legs. But he’ll get to have some fun pissing my dad off with the new girl.”

Gabe hit the horn. It was a long honk with a lot of meaning.

“Take me, Caleb. I want to meet everyone. My mom never cares where I go,” Deliah said.

He made a quick laugh. “Funny, she doesn’t seem to care where I am either.”

Deliah slipped past us and crawled into the backseat.

“Hey, what do you think you’re doing?” Gabe said sharply and honked again.

Caleb leaned into the car and peered at Deliah with a satisfied grin before he spoke to me.

“Take forty west and I’ll catch up. I gotta say goodbye. Talk him into getting a room near Little Rock.” He shook his head, closed his eyes, and then opened them again. “I got me a sister, legs. Can you believe it?”

“I wish your brother was as happy as you are. I don’t think I can help him with this one.”

“He’s just in a horn tossing mood,” he told me.

“You mean a phone tossing mood,” I replied.

Gabe laid on the horn again.

Caleb slapped the roof of the Mustang. “Rather a horn honkin’ mood, legs. I’m sure you won’t have a lick of trouble finding a way to make him smile.”

He winked and I stepped up to the car. He dared to pinch my butt and inhale at the back of my head. I went to slap his cheek, and he grabbed my wrist and twisted it. He released me when I kicked his ankle as hard as I could, but he had a boot on. I could have told Gabe, but I needed to keep Caleb as an ally until I was sure Gabe would be okay.

Irritated with Caleb’s clowning, I climbed inside the car and buckled my seatbelt. I knew exactly how Gabe would drive, and I did what I could to prepare myself.

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