Chasing Carly by KB Winters

Author:KB Winters [Winters, KB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBoyfriends Publishing Inc

14

Carly

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My thoughts stayed locked on Nick and the little kiss on the way home, but as I turned onto my street, they shifted to Alesha.

She’d come in for a few hours to help combat the lunch rush but had been in an obvious hurry to get out around three. When I pulled into the driveway, I braced myself for the fight that likely lay in waiting on the other side of my front door. I didn’t want to keep arguing with her, it was like beating my head on a brick wall, painful and repetitive, but I was still filled with anger over the lies she’d told about Nick. Lies that were not only hurtful—but had far more serious implications than just silly teenage drama.

“Alesha?” I bellowed, not two steps inside. I dropped my messenger style bag on the entryway table and deposited my keyring in the decorative bowl shaped like a giant seashell. The clang of the keys echoed through the too-quiet house.

Where the hell was she?

“Alesha! Get downstairs!” I stormed into the kitchen and started up the stairs, before I heard the sound of her door shutting. She appeared at the top of the stairs, bedraggled, like she’d been napping away the entire afternoon and evening.

Which, I supposed was better than partying, but it still pissed me off.

Alesha looked me up and down. “What the hell? Is the house on fire?”

I finished the climb and positioned myself against the railing, squared off against her. “You lied to me. About Nick.”

A smirk crossed her face. It took every ounce of self-control not to slap it right off her face.

“Alesha,” I growled.

She snapped to attention at the harsh sound of my voice. “What? I was just messing with you. It’s not a big deal.”

“It’s not a big deal? Alesha, what the hell is the matter with you? Do you just have no concept of right and wrong? No conscious? Not only is it a big fuckin’ deal, but what you accused Nick of is illegal! What if I’d gone to the cops?”

“For what?” She wrinkled her brow as though I’d suddenly launched into a complicated math equation. “I never said he forced me. God, Carly. Why are you blowing this up?”

I lurched toward her, raising a finger between her eyes. “Because it’s a big deal, Alesha! You were toying with a man’s reputation. And for what? To get back at me?”

She took a half step back, out of my range. “God. It was just a joke, okay?”

“Why? What part of you fucking up a man’s reputation is supposed to be funny? You came traipsing down the stairs this morning, half-naked, in some sleazy lingerie in hopes of seeing Nick. This is obviously not a joke to you.”

“Why do you even care?”

“Because Nick doesn’t deserve this!”

She rolled her eyes. “Why can’t you just admit it? You like him. That’s why you’re flipping out about this.”

“This isn’t about me. This is about Nick, so stop trying to turn the tables.”

Alesha threw her hands up.

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