KEITH (The Hartwell Brothers Book 1) by M. S. Parker

Author:M. S. Parker [Parker, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

Veronica

Mom had been awake when I came in, but I pleaded exhaustion and all but ran upstairs so I wouldn’t have to face her questions. And I knew she had them.

The problem was that I suspected I had even more questions than she did.

I liked Matt.

I really did.

But even though he’d asked me on another date, and I’d agreed, I was already asking myself why.

“Because he’s a nice guy,” I told myself as I went through my regular bedtime regimen of washing my face, moisturizing, brushing my hair and teeth.

I liked nice guys. Most of the guys I’d dated had been defined by that singular characteristic…nice. I could even proudly say that I’d never been drawn to the bad boy type. That had been my birth mother’s domain, and I’d never be able to look myself in the mirror if I’d turned out to be like her.

All my life, I’d worked to avoid even the barest resemblance.

She’d barely limped along through school, eventually dropping out and nothing either of my adopted parents—her own parents—had said could convince her to go back.

I’d excelled. Although I loved school in general, even when I wasn’t enamored of whatever course I was taking, I had made straight A’s and had gone on to win a merit-based scholarship that paid my entire tuition.

My mother had always struggled to hold a job, relying instead on her flavor of the month to provide for her.

I had a fierce pride in being able to provide for myself and give money to my grandparents—the people who’d stepped in after my birth mother had stepped out.

She’d dated bad boys, drug dealers, pimps and ex-cons with a history of violent offenses, often falling into bed within thirty minutes of meeting a partner. I knew, because up until she’d walked out of our lives forever, she’d enjoyed regaling me with tales of her new man, the one who was “really it this time.”

I had yet to fall into bed with a single lover.

Matt was everything I should want in a man, everything I’d told myself I was holding out for.

But as I lay in bed, my eyes closed, it wasn’t his face I saw behind my lids.

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