Tara's Warriors (Bondmates Book 5) by Ann Mayburn

Author:Ann Mayburn [Mayburn, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Honey Mountain Publishing
Published: 2020-05-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Tara

Taking a sip of her second peach margarita, Tara bit her lower lip to make sure she wasn’t drinking it too fast. If her lower lip was numb, that was always her sign that she was well on her way to being officially drunk. Her nerves said that was a great idea, but her brain told her that no man found a woman attractive who tended to slur unintelligibly while wasted. So she sipped her delicious drink from its ‘adult sippy cup’ and pretended to listen to her friends and cousins as they chatted.

Somehow, word had gotten around that she had a date with the two guys from the diner.

Somehow probably being her Aunt Jean.

To the right, closer to where a jazz band was playing in the large gazebo, her Aunt Jean sat in a blue and yellow stripped lawn chair next to Uncle Rob. Jillian ran with a pack of kids between Tara and the rest of her family and friends spread out over the greenspace. While there were plenty of things Tara did not like about living in a small town, she was glad Jillian was being raised with so much love.

“Hey, Tara,” her cousin and good friend Melinda said as she brushed her long, dark bangs from her slightly sweaty forehead. “How is Lacey doing? Mom said you talked to her earlier today.”

Resting the cold cup against her chest, Tara said, “She’s doing good. Misses the hell out of everyone and wishes she could be home for the festival.”

Melinda looked away, her gaze tracking the kids running past them, “I’m glad to hear that. She’s over there helping with the typhoon relief, isn’t she?”

“She is.” Tara allowed herself a quick look at the clock, counting down the minutes until the men were supposed to arrive. “Lacey’s doing MP duty right now with a medical unit. They’re on their way to a remote base in the thick of the destruction.”

“God bless her,” Melinda said as she made the sign of the cross. “That girl of yours is something special. Always had a strong sense of justice. I’ll never forget her beating the crud out of that little jerk Nick Silas when they were eight ‘cause he was picking on a kindergartener. This was back when I was doing volunteer work in the school office, and I happened to be there the day they marched Lacey in with a split lip, and Nick in with a bloody nose, split lip, and big ol’ shiner straight to the office. Lacey had her chin raised to the sky in such a defiant way that it was like looking at her daddy at that age. Nathan had the same sense of right and wrong, and he was just as stubborn.”

A small, soft pain swept through Tara’s heart as she wished for the hundred millionth time that her husband was still around. But he was long gone, killed far too young in a tragic farm accident while helping out his dad. Not long after Nathan’s death, his parents had left, selling their farm and moving to Florida.

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