Troubled by the Texan (Perth Girls Book 3) by Bree Verity

Author:Bree Verity [Verity, Bree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Briony Vreedenburgh
Published: 2017-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.

Desiree never needed help from anyone. Desiree was strong, reserved. She had this shell that she kept the world out with.

And this is what happens when you let the world in.

Huddled on her couch, she felt like she couldn’t move a muscle. All the weariness of the world had descended on her. It was like the air had turned to honey, and she was straining to breathe.

Her life was a complete shambles. All the structures and barriers she put in place were broken. She felt small and vulnerable. She felt betrayed by Jack, but also understood why he had left her there. She wanted to call him, to beg him to forgive her. But she also wanted to shout at him until she was hoarse, tell him what a horrible person he was, leaving a fellow human being at the exact time they found out their parent was dying of cancer.

She wanted to call her mother, have her tell her that no, she wasn’t dying. Aaron got it wrong. She was fine. Desiree wanted to hug her as tight as she could, and never let her go. She wanted to shake her, to shout at her that a loving parent would call their children with that kind of news. But she also felt overwhelming guilt, that her mother was going through this terrible illness, and she hadn’t even known about it, because of her own stupid pride.

She wanted to rewind, to erase the past day and the previous evening. It was all a nightmare. A horrible, cruel nightmare.

But the nightmare was real. Desiree was alone and lost. She simply had no idea how to go forward from here. So she sat, curled up on her couch, safe in its familiar embrace, and just wished herself anywhere but here. She had given up crying hours ago. Probably because all her tears were spent.

When the phone rang, she answered it on remote. It was Lydia, needing to talk to her and Pen. Desiree agreed to meet them at Greens, and, feeling a bit like a zombie, she got herself out the door, in the car, and over to the café. A little voice in her head said that it would do her good to see her friends. After all, they had been her lifeline more than once, when she hadn’t been able to rely on her family. She felt the first stirrings of hope as she walked into the familiar muddle of the café, spying out her friends.

Lydia wanted to talk to them about the ongoing saga that was her life, and more importantly, her new boyfriend, Tad, who seemed to be doing everything he could to push every single one of Lydia’s warning buttons. And while Desiree had no desire whatsoever to listen to her friend’s angst, she still did.

That’s what best friends do, right? They are there for each other.

And while Desiree’s own problems swirled around and around in her head, muddling up everything that was being said, she

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