Treasure on Moon Lake by Amy Gamet

Author:Amy Gamet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amy Gamet
Published: 2015-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Amethysts of lavender, purple and blue

Like water poured out over rocks, tried and true

Here wishes fall down wells of gold and dark stone

Twinkling their faces like stars from this throne

Treasure has torn men apart through the years

Brought strife and ill wishes to those far and near

As happens when two want the very same thing

But only one person can ever be king

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Tori stared past a group of stained glass sun catchers hung neatly on the windowpane, as she listened to Melanie chatting with a customer in the background.

All she could see was Jed grabbing Gabe’s bloody shirt.

I know you never got a piece of that one, brother. I’ve gotten farther with Tori in a week than you got all summer.

Those words were like a slap, an unexpected blow from an imagined ally, and they hurt more than she could describe. She gotten used to Jed, attached to him. Grown to like him despite his scratchy personality. She’d even begun to think of him as a real possibility in her life.

That had been a mistake.

“Penny for your thoughts?” asked Mel.

Tori shook her head and turned around. “I don’t know what I’m thinking.”

Melanie nodded. “I ran into Gabe at the gas station this morning. Looks like he was on the wrong end of a baseball bat.”

“Something like that.” Tori crossed her arms and sighed. “He and Jed were fighting.”

“About what?”

Tori turned back to the dazzling sun catcher, colored light streaming through the glass. “Me.”

“But that’s good.”

Tori shook her head. “Jed told him he’d gotten farther with me in a week, than Gabe did all summer.”

“Well, that’s not very gentlemanly at all, now is it?”

“Nope.”

Melanie made a considering noise deep in her throat, and Tori narrowed her eyes, turning to face her friend. “What?” asked Tori.

“It’s none of my business.”

“Just say it. You know you’re going to.”

Melanie shrugged her shoulder. “I kind of like it.”

“What?” Tori snapped.

“I know you don’t want to hear it, but Jed was telling Gabe you belong to him. It’s primal.” She chuckled. “It kind of gets my motor going, to tell you the truth.”

“Well, I think it’s obnoxious and barbaric.”

“For a man to fend off potential mates for his woman? Nah. That’s nature. You see it all the time on Animal Planet.”

Tori pinched the skin between her eyes.

“It’s true,” said Mel. “That’s all we humans are, anyway. Just animals. No different than dogs or cats or horses.”

“I am a lot different than a horse, thank you very much.”

“Not as much as you’d like to think.”

The bell over the door chimed and the women turned. There stood Jed, somehow managing to look good even with two black eyes and a nasty gash running down his cheek.

Tori put a hand on her hip. “Come to think of it, you’re right, Mel. There’s a real horse’s ass, right there.”

Melanie scooted between Tori and a bookcase. “I’m going to get back to work.”

Jed nodded his head, then spoke to Tori. “I deserved that.”

“You deserve a lot more than that.”

“I’ve got two bruised ribs and a broken nose.

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