The Rookie (Calling the Signals Book 1) by Ann Jacobs

Author:Ann Jacobs [Jacobs, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Tina set her luggage down in what she figured was the guest bedroom, sighed. What she really would have liked to do was rest, but she imagined Bobby would be home in a few hours, and the least she could do was feed him. After all, he’d opened up his place to her.

She felt awkward, here in this elegant condo that outshone any house she’d ever seen yet didn’t remind her at all of Bobby. Maybe if she kept busy…

Not even the beef stew and peach cobbler she put together from the sparse supply of comfort food in the sparkling kitchen took Tina’s mind off why she’d left Hedgecock and come to live for a little while on Bobby’s charity. Her skin still crawled when she remembered her last encounter with Edgar Garcia, the stench of cheap beer and even cheaper perfume that had almost choked her as he held her down and tried to rape her in the back room of the school cafeteria where she’d been tidying up after the lunch crowd left.

She’d scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed, but still she felt the humiliation, the filth…the terrible fear that had driven her here, to safety. No matter what, she’d never go back, never risk encountering her bastard of a stepfather again—unless she had the protection of a strong man.

That man wouldn’t be Bobby. She’d known for years that he thought of her as a good pal, not a potential bride. Besides, she heard on the evening news yesterday that he’d asked one of the Gamblers’ cheerleaders to marry him. Marly Ragusa. A dark-haired beauty with gorgeous dark hair and a brilliant smile, she’d seemed fully comfortable up on that podium when Bobby had introduced her to a crowd of reporters.

Tina would have sunk into the floor if she were ever put in that position. But then she wouldn’t be. Men didn’t flaunt girls like her, and she was glad. She’d find a job, a little apartment she could afford and maybe, someday, a man who’d love her the way she’d dreamed of all her life. A simple man with simple needs, not a superstar athlete like her first teenage lover.

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