Kill Me If You Can by Nicole Young

Author:Nicole Young
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-16T08:00:18+00:00

24

I tore my gaze from Puppa to watch Sam jog our way.

“Go on and visit with your friend, Patricia,” he said. “We can talk later.”

I gritted my teeth. Sam had terrible timing. Go away, I felt like telling her.

Sam reached us, bubbling over. “There’s a peacock, Tish. And roosters. And a llama.”

Goldie nickered again.

Sam turned. “What a gorgeous horse!”

Back away from the fence, Barbie, I seethed in my mind. Sam was driving me nuts and it hadn’t even been one day. August couldn’t come soon enough.

She gave Heaven Hill Gold a pat on the nose, then turned and grabbed my arm. “Come on. You’re going to love it.”

My feet slapped the ground in defiance at each step as she dragged me to the barn. Inside, we checked out the new stalls Joel and Puppa had put in. Even in my foul mood, I couldn’t help but laugh at the roosters with their bobbleheads, and the peacock, who tried chasing us off with a shake of its plumes.

We found the llama in a high-fenced pen adjoining the back of the barn. Sam and I ran hands through the animal’s thick wool.

She smiled at me. “Tish, I’ve never been to a farm. Thank you for bringing me along tonight.”

My heart melted as I put myself in Sam’s muddied shoes. She had the happiest disposition of anyone I knew, even though she’d suffered her own share of poor choices.

“I’m really glad you’re here,” I said. “We’re going to have a great summer together.”

“We really are.” She rubbed the llama’s ears. “I couldn’t help but wonder what you were talking about tonight regarding that Melissa woman. Is there anything I can do to help her?”

“What a situation. Poor thing. My grandfather’s already doing as much as he can.”

“Joel caught me up on some of the details. I hate the thought of her living in that house with her husband’s buddies hovering over her. Let’s sneak her out of there. She can live with us at the lodge.”

My hands dropped to my sides. “Absolutely not. We’ve got enough trouble worrying about your ex-husband. We do not need Melissa’s baggage coming after us too.”

“Oh. Brad told you about Gill, huh?”

“Well, yeah.” I looked at her with an expression that said “duh.”

“Then you see why I want to help Melissa. We have so much in common.”

“I doubt it. Somehow I can’t imagine you staying with Gill as long as Melissa’s been with Drake. And she’s still reluctant to go.”

Sam stiffened, her hands tucked deep in the llama’s wool. “I look like I’ve got it all together, don’t I? But you’d be surprised. I was with Gill for almost ten years before I had the courage to break free.”

I swallowed. The beautiful woman in front of me with her Grecian features and incredible black hair deserved only the finest man the world had to offer. And she’d picked Gill and stayed? “What’s the story behind that?” I asked. “It just doesn’t seem to fit who you are.”

“It’s our hardships that mold us, Tish.

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