The Rebound Girl (Getting Physical) by Morgan Tamara

Author:Morgan, Tamara [Morgan, Tamara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-05-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Whitney’s parents visited her every year like clockwork, their trip aligning, not coincidentally, with her birthday. She’d once told them it was the worst present they could possibly give her, that any other time out of the year would have been better, that she’d even take time off from her regularly scheduled activities if they would leave her alone to celebrate in peace.

Whitney loved her birthday. She also loved her parents. She just didn’t love them at the same time.

“But it’s technically my birth day too,” her mother always protested, ignoring Whitney’s pleas and blazing forward with whatever plans she’d already laid out. “I’m the one who did all the work. Thirty-six hours of back labor, Whitney. You should be buying me presents.”

Nothing Whitney did or said could stop them. Never mind that she’d rather go dancing and eat a whole cake and spend way too much money on new shoes. Never mind that she had no desire to entertain them in the middle of the personal and professional quarantine area her life had recently become. The parental units were currently making plans to visit Pleasant Park.

God help them all.

“Well, if you’re planning my surprise party, you can go ahead and cancel,” she said glumly to John, who had come over to watch the Lifetime marathon on her DVR. “Mom and Dad couldn’t be talked out of visiting again this year.”

“Poor baby.” John dropped a giant bowl of cheesy popcorn onto Whitney’s lap. It was warm and smelled of processed food heaven—Kendra would have had a fit. “I happen to love your parents. Do you remember the year they took us all to Medieval Times and your dad was so drunk he volunteered to joust that huge knight?”

“That wasn’t because he was drunk,” Whitney pointed out with a sigh. “My parents are weird, and I don’t know why they refuse to get a hotel. I think they do it on purpose to spite me.”

“I think they do it on purpose because they love you.” John shoved his hand deep in the popcorn bowl until he reached the half-popped kernels. He had the disgusting habit of sucking off all the flavor and then spitting them out. “Also because the only way they ever learn anything about your life is by going through all your stuff while you’re at work.”

“They don’t do that.” Whitney grabbed the remote and selected their first show, part one of a series in which a woman with amnesia first gave birth to a demon and then, a few years later, to an angel. “I put all my kinky sex stuff right where they can find it. There is nothing like a vibrator in the crisper drawer to keep your parents from snooping in the really good cupboards.”

“You’re sick, you know that?” John spit out a popcorn kernel into a napkin and laughed. But as the movie came on, he sobered a little. “Are you going to introduce them to Dimples?”

“Shh,” Whitney hissed, watching the screaming blonde woman give birth from the back of a taxi.

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