Untamed Hearts by Yahrah St. John

Author:Yahrah St. John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yahrah St. John
Published: 2014-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

Rylee’s room was a welcome respite. She turned on some blues and pulled a bottle of whiskey and a plastic cup from her nightstand. She poured a glass to drown her sorrows.

She was on her second drink, listening to Nina Simone, when a knock sounded on her door. Rylee sat up on her bed and fluffed her curls before yelling, “Come in.”

Rylee rolled her eyes when she saw who stood at the door. “Not now, Caleb.”

“Yes, now.” He closed the door and came toward her. He sat on the edge of the king-sized bed. “You have another cup?”

Rylee smiled, then reached for the drawer on the nightstand and pulled out another. She handed it to her brother, and he helped himself to the whiskey sitting on the nightstand.

“Bottoms up!” He held up his cup until she did the same. They clicked rims before taking a drink. “So, you wanna tell me what really went down between you and Jeremy?”

“Not really,” Rylee said, eyeing him warily. “You might be my brother, but there’s some things I can’t talk to you about.”

“Then just give me the highlights.” He sipped his whiskey and stared at her.

Rylee sighed dramatically. She wasn’t going to get out of this without spilling some of her guts. “Fine!” She took a huge gulp of whiskey and subsequently began to cough uncontrollably. Caleb patted her back. “Easy, love. Whiskey is meant to be sipped, not chugged.”

“Whatever!” She rolled her eyes.

“Stop stalling, and start talking.”

“Where do you want me to start?” Rylee asked. “Should I start with the fact that thanks to me, Jeremy felt the need to showboat to a rich playboy to win my affection? Or how about when he lost his horse to said playboy? Or how about when your dumb-ass sister spent the weekend with said playboy only to have him creep away in the middle of the night and send his assistant the next morning to come fetch her? Which of those should we talk about?”

“Damn!” Caleb reached for the bottle on the nightstand and poured more into his cup. “Could you have at least warned a brother that he was in for a major shitfest?”

“I told you I didn’t want to talk about it,” Rylee said, sipping her drink again, “but you persisted.”

“That I did,” Caleb said and leaned back, resting one forearm on the bed so he could look up at Rylee. “And because I did, I can tell you that you didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Didn’t I? If you think about it, I’m the reason Jeremy lost his horse.”

“Jeremy lost his horse because of him. Did he do it to impress you as you stated at dinner? Yes. But that’s on him. He shouldn’t have gambled away something that important. This will teach him a lesson to value what he has.”

“I know that here,” Rylee said, pointing to her head, “but tell that to my heart. I don’t know how I can even face Jeremy. And did I tell you he warned me away from the playboy? But no, I had to play with fire, and what always happens? I got burned.

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