The Love Scam by MaryJanice Davidson

Author:MaryJanice Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Wait, what? Crimes against whose sweetheart? Paying off what banks? Was that why there was a money mix-up? Did Blake and/or Mom send the wrong money from the wrong account somewhere it wasn’t supposed to go? And why the hell had Blake brought up the nuclear option? They had a deal: Rake could joke about everything except the nuclear option, and Blake could bring up any topic except the nuclear option. Okay, not really a deal. A general understanding they usually stuck to while not acknowledging that’s what they were doing.

“Trouble?” Delaney sounded tense but was sitting like she always did: straight, shoulders back, comfortably alert. Like she could scope Cracked.com’s Five Villains Who Went Out of Their Way to Screw Their Own Plan, or leap out of the chair and stuff a hundred Easter baskets in under twenty, or nail an intruder in the ’nads. “Everything okay?”

“I don’t know.” He scrubbed his fingers through his clean but unadorned hair—soon he’d be able to buy product! Not that he used it. He just loved knowing he had the option of buying it. Lord, let me never be bald. “I haven’t talked to Blake in—uh, what month is it?”

“May.” This with barely veiled amusement.

“Don’t you give me that look,” he ordered. “People forget what month it is all the time.”

“They don’t, though.”

“Anyway, Ms. Asks a Question Then Changes the Subject, it’s been several weeks. See, our mom…” He trailed off. “Aw, you don’t want to hear it.”

She’d closed her laptop by now, the one with the absurdly long password that was at least twenty characters, including I and H and Y, and was giving him her full attention. She even scooted the desk chair closer to him. “I do, though.”

Damned if she didn’t seem sincere. “It’s rich-people stuff,” he warned.

She took a deep breath and leveled her steady gray gaze at him. “I can take it.”

He snorted. “Okay, the thing is, my mom’s been on her own longer than I’ve been alive. But a few weeks ago, she heard from her hometown, Sweetheart, North Dakota. And…”

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