Dick by Stephens R. C

Author:Stephens, R. C. [Stephens, R. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 27866686
Publisher: R.C. Stephens
Published: 2016-04-25T07:00:00+00:00

Ella leans over the table with a lifted brow and asks with a lowered voice, “So is she just a friend, or is it more?” She came to New York so we could get to know one another. I’ve never had a sister, so this is all new to me.

“An old friend, she told you.” I look to her innocently. She continues to watch me expectantly. Is she waiting for a girly gossip session? Do brothers and sisters even discuss these things? I know Ge and I have discussed women before, but nothing too in depth. It’s more like ‘shit she’s hot,’ or ‘I want to tap that.’ I don’t think that’s what Ella is looking for here.

“Why don’t I believe you?” She squints her eyes at me, and I laugh. I met her last week, and she already thinks she knows me.

“I’m really not sure what you’re insinuating here, Little Sister.” I mock her. Clearly blood does run thicker than water because we have this easy way of getting along. Our conversations in Washington were like this too, albeit more intense since I had questions about my father. As I sit across from her and take in her features, I see parts of my father in her: the straight nose, high cheekbones. I’m hoping she didn’t get his personality, but I’m guessing she didn’t. She’s smart, warm, and outgoing. She also informed me that her mother isn’t a big fan of my father. She sees him as a ‘useless user,’ as she puts it. She just never had it in her to throw him out. As a kid, it was hard for me to see her mother as anything more than the mistress that broke up my parents’ marriage and caused my mother to leave. I had a lot of resentment. It’s just hard to resent Ella. She didn’t choose to be born or share a loser father with me.

“I can see the way she looks at you.” Ella says suggestively, pulling me out of my deep thoughts. Having her here has been good and bad. I may have been craving a sense of family all my life, and it’s nice to know there’s another nice human that shares my blood, but it’s also opened some old wounds.

“We’re friends. She’s made that abundantly clear.”

“Uh huh,” Ella answers as if she isn’t buying it, or maybe she has some women’s intuition like Ma. “What happened to her eye?” she asks. I cringe. I should have seen that coming.

“Her husband,” I answer curtly. This is information I would never repeat, but I know Ella is trying to form a relationship with me, and she looks trustworthy. “She left him tonight. That was the result.”

Ella sighs. “Our father never hit my mother. He never did much. I hate that Mama never left him and has to put up with him,” she explains, looking past me, clearly pained. “I’m sorry, Dixon. I’m complaining when you didn’t even have parents. He left you behind. I swear I want to beat him for that,” she says, shaking her head.

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