The Rancher & Heart of Stone by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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KEELY PUT ON a pair of brown corduroy

slacks and a beige turtleneck sweater and

ran a brush through her thick, straight

blond hair. She hoped Clark didn’t have

an expensive date in mind. She couldn’t

dress for it. She threw an old beige

Berber coat over her clothes and grabbed

her purse.

True to his word, Clark pulled up in the

yard in exactly ten minutes, driving his

sports car.

Carly came out of Ella’s bedroom just

as Keely was leaving.

“Is she asleep?” Keely asked dully.

“Yes.” Carly was worried, and it

showed. “She should never have said that

to you,” she added. “She loved you when

you were a baby. You wouldn’t

remember, you were too little, but I do.

She was so happy...”

“So happy that she now treats me this

way?” Keely asked, hurt.

Carly sighed. “She was different after

your father left. She started drinking then,

and it’s just gotten worse year after year.”

She saw that she wasn’t getting through to

the younger woman. “There are things you

don’t know about your parents, Keely,”

she said gently.

“Such as?”

Carly shook her head. “That’s not my

place to tell you.” She turned away. “I’m

going home. She’ll sleep until morning.”

“Lock the door when you leave,

please,” Keely said.

“I’m leaving now. You can lock it.”

Carly got her purse and stopped just as the

door closed behind the two women.

“I’m as bad as she is, sometimes,” the

older woman confessed quietly. “I

shouldn’t make fun of the way you are, and

neither should she. But you don’t fight

back, Keely. You must learn to do that.

You’re nineteen. Don’t spend the rest of

your life knuckling under, just to keep

peace.”

Keely frowned. “I don’t.”

“You do, baby,” Carly said softly. She

sighed. “Ella and I are a bad influence on

you. What you need to do is get an

apartment of your own and live your own

life.”

Keely searched the other woman’s

eyes. “I’ve thought about that....”

“Do it,” Carly advised. “Get out while

you can.”

Keely frowned. “What do you mean?”

Carly hesitated. “I’ve said too much

already. Enjoy your date. Good night.”

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