Sweet as Sugar, Hot as Spice by Kimberly Raye

Author:Kimberly Raye [RAYE, KIMBERLY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC027020
ISBN: 9780446554183
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-12-13T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Mom, what are you doing here?” Eve blurted out when she opened her front door to find her mother standing on her doorstep.

“I need to lie down.”

“O-kay. Is there some reason you drove all the way across town to do it?” Eve was getting a bad feeling about this, particularly when she noted the large black leather suitcase sitting near her mother’s feet.

“Your grandmother is looking for the perfect sex partner. Not that I have anything against a mature, independent woman looking for great sex. But she’s taken out a singles ad in a strange city and . . .” Jacqueline shook her head. “She’s your grandmother, for heaven’s sake. And then there’s your father. That man is even crazier than my mother. He wants to . . .” Her body started to shake violently as if she were trying to ward off an incredible evil. “I can’t even say it.”

“He wants to marry you?”

She shivered again. “Just hearing it makes my skin crawl. Can you believe he asked me to . . . That he wants us to get . . . Can you believe it?”

“After thirty-six years?” Eve shrugged and tried to ignore the suitcase. “It makes sense.”

“Only to a warped, twisted, disturbed, married mind.” In other words, you.

“I can’t see why you’re so surprised.”

“I’m not surprised. I’m outraged. He knows good and well that enslaving myself to anyone is not an option. So why he’s persisting in pushing me, I have no clue. On top of that, your grandmother is actually encouraging it. She even cried when he . . . when he asked . . .”

“When he asked you to marry him?”

“Exactly.”

“I’m sure it was touching.”

“It was outrageous. Your father has obviously gone off the deep end and taken your grandmother with him. Not that it’s their fault. It’s society, I tell you, what with those backwards, cretin-ish Himanists ruling the television with their Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Smackdown and all the other stuff in between. Then there’s Cherry Chandler, who’s spreading her vicious propaganda in the name of ratings. She’s warped both of their minds, and no amount of reasoning on my part can help them.”

“But you’re going to try, right?” She cast a hopeful gaze on her mother.

“Of course I am. I’m going to formulate a reasonable course of action to prove to them both how silly they’re being, which is why I’m here. I simply can’t think straight with the constant nagging and— You really should try to tone down the makeup, dear. Anyhow, with so much harping on the same old, same old, I’m this close to throwing myself onto the nearest freeway.”

“I know the feeling.”

“In the meantime—”

“You’re going back home to tough it out in the propagandist trenches with the two people you love most in the world?” Please, please, please.

Her mother picked up the suitcase, straightened her shoulders, and marched past Eve into the small hallway. “I’m emancipating myself from the insanity and moving in with you until I come up with a plan.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.