Wink of an Eye by Lynn Chandler Willis

Author:Lynn Chandler Willis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466855519
Publisher: A Thomas Dunne Book

CHAPTER 16

I had graduated Wink High School a month ago and here I was, still shoveling horse shit. I tossed the last shovel onto the trailer and cussed. I cussed the sweat stinging my eyes, I cussed the fucking horses that dumped more crap than biologically possible, I cussed this godforsaken town, and I cussed Carroll Kinley and the K-Bar Ranch for offering the only jobs available.

It was either shoveling horse shit at the K-Bar, learning how to run a pump jack, or unloading trailers at the Walmart in Odessa. Those were the options. I wasn’t big enough (or good enough) for a football scholarship to Texas A&M; my fastball wasn’t fast enough for a tryout with the Rangers’ farm team; I barely squeaked by academically so an academic scholarship wasn’t even plausible.

Thunder reverberated off the barn’s metal roof and vibrated the ground underneath my feet. The boots pinching the shit out of my toes was enough discomfort. I walked to the edge of the barn and watched the storm roll in. The sky was the color of fresh charcoal; the wind kicked up small cyclones of sand and dust. I twitched my nose, trying to pick up the scent of rain, but all I smelled was hay and horse shit. My ol’ man could smell rain coming from miles away. The sonofabitch. Sometimes I wondered what he was doing, where he was. Why he left. And sometimes, in the very far reaches of my brain, I envied him.

In the distance, I saw Claire’s truck jerk along the dirt road, heading toward the barn. The closer she got, the more I could hear the gears grinding. I couldn’t help but laugh. Her father gave her the old farm truck to get around the ranch, unconcerned that she didn’t know how to drive a stick shift. I taught her the best I could but after the fifth lesson ended with us screaming at each other, I gave up. She’d learn it sooner or later. I did take a step inside the barn just in case she got the clutch mixed up with the brake again.

She jerked to a stop, then got out, her face lit up with the most beautiful smile I’d ever seen. She was wearing a pale yellow skirt that fell just inches below the tops of her thighs, and a sleeveless white top. She’d complained earlier about having to have lunch with her mother at the country club. She didn’t like the country club women and liked their daughters even less. “Thought you might need some water,” she said, carrying a large thermos.

I grabbed her arm and pulled her to me, kissing the inside of her neck. She smelled like honeysuckle. “I’ve got all I need right here.”

“Mmm,” she moaned, then dropped the thermos, wrapped her arms around my neck, and drove her tongue deep into my waiting mouth. She hiked her leg up and wrapped it around my thigh, pressing herself against me.

I pulled back slightly and smiled.

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