Beyond Falling Stars (Starlight Saga Book 3) by Sherry Soule

Author:Sherry Soule [Soule, Sherry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
Publisher: Disenchanted Publishing
Published: 2017-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

Turning in my seat, I reach out for Hayden’s hand resting on the table, but he moves his arm before my fingertips make contact. He stares past my shoulder with a grim expression at Nasty Neela.

I stab my fork into the scrumptious ploymanti fruit pie and take another bite. A stabby finger jabs me in the shoulder, launching a bit of fruit down my windpipe. I cough and gag like a patient in a TB ward, clutching at my throat. Tears spring to my eyes as my wheezing intensifies, and a sense of panic swells in my chest. I clutch at my throat, leaning over and coughing all over the table. My face heats, all the blood rushing into my head.

Hayden jerks out of his seat and shoves someone aside standing behind my chair.

Neela, all petite and moody, steps into my line of vision with an evil glint in her stare.

A hard slap strikes my back, followed by another, slamming me forward against the edge of the table, sputtering and coughing. The piece lodged in my throat pops out of my mouth like a cork from a champagne bottle and hits Neela square in the eye. She yelps and her face turns a dark purple.

“Thank you.” My voice sounds hoarse and scratchy from my near-death-by-fruit-pie moment.

Hayden retakes his seat. “Anytime, Peaches.”

“I’m the one who’s been injured!” Neela shrieks like a piglet and covers her bruised eye socket with one hand. “Ahhh! You stupid, food spitting whore!”

The other patrons watch the drama unfold. Even the Lancasters across the room observe the verbal smackdown. I’m starting to hyperventilate, and I haven’t even channeled my inner-bitch yet.

It takes a minute for the tears to clear from my eyes before I shoot Nasty Neela a death glare. “I know you’re not talking to me.”

“You put my father in prison, and then you steal my fiancé,” she says, her voice gruff. “And now you’re rubbing it in my face!”

“You’re father tried to kill me, so he got what he deserved,” I say coolly. “Besides, you can’t steal something that was never yours to begin with.”

Neela gives me a wide-eyed look as if the air supply was cut off from my brain during my choking fit. “Daddy was only trying to get you to back off.”

“Are you kidding me?” I say in a brittle tone. “I hope your father rots in jail for thirty years making license plates and becoming special friends with a dude named Bubba.”

“Why are you so mean? You need to understand that you’re unworthy of joining a noble family,” Neela says, her voice rising an octave. “And how Hayden and I belong together!”

Just slap a cap on her trifecta of crazy. A blistery heat spreads all through my body and a white-hot flash of anger sears my chest. I try to ignore the other diners eavesdropping on our conversation while my rage meter climbs into the red zone.

“Well, I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong,” I say as a mixture of anger and embarrassment writhe inside me.

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