The Long Road Home [The Final McCassey Book] (McCassey Brothers) by Sharman Lauren N

Author:Sharman, Lauren N. [Sharman, Lauren N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781603132633
Publisher: Whiskey Creek Press LLC
Published: 2008-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“Why can’t I just go back to the garage?”

Georgia took a sip from her glass of ice water then carefully set it back on the table. She and her brothers had had a long talk over dinner, which was when they informed her that she would no longer be living in the apartment.

Georgia was confused. She didn’t understand why she had to move in with Blackie and Angel when there was a perfectly good room, a quiet, peaceful room where she’d been perfectly happy living, waiting for her at the garage.

“Because that wasn’t nothin’ but a temporary fix, Georgia,” Blackie answered when Gypsy, Angel, and Dusty rose from the table to clear the dinner dishes. “The garage apartment was a place for you to stay until you could get yourself together and were ready to meet the rest of the family. It ain’t no place for a girl to be livin’.”

“But I like the apartment,” she argued. “You guys all lived there for years. Why can’t I stay?”

Blackie pulled the tab on another can of Budweiser and cracked it open. “I told you, little girl, it ain’t no place for you.”

“No, you didn’t! You said it was no place for a girl. I’m not girly, and I want to stay there.”

“No,” he said sternly. Then he took a long drink from his beer can, looked her up and down, and added. “Not girly, my ass.”

She sighed and sat back in her chair.

All right, maybe she was a little girly, but only sometimes. How in the world had Blackie known that? All he’d seen her do since she’d been in town was cry, lie around, get sick, and occasionally watch TV.

And stubborn. Why the hell did Blackie have to be so stubborn? Didn’t he understand that the garage was the one place she felt happy and safe? That she didn’t feel like such a burden?

No, he probably didn’t know that.

Because she hadn’t told him.

But Georgia did love it there. The apartment was small and confined; her brothers were all always downstairs, and Wade—

Wade.

That, Georgia suddenly realized, was part of what was bothering her. If she moved out of the garage, so would Wade. She’d become so accustomed to seeing him twenty-four hours a day, relying on him to have answers and help her figure things out, that she wasn’t sure she’d be able to do it on her own.

Wade understood her. He understood what she’d been through in the past, and what she was going through now.

Would she be able to keep herself together without him?

“But what about Wade?” she asked. “I thought you wanted him to help me.”

He nodded slightly. “That’s right.”

“Then is he moving in with you and Angel, too?” her question laced with heavy sarcasm.

Blackie flashed an evil grin at Georgia from across the table that sent chills down her spine. He obviously knew that her question was a civilized way of trying to piss him off. But she didn’t care. She was angry that he was trying to control her.

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