Girl on a Wire by Gwenda Bond

Author:Gwenda Bond
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: 2014-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

twenty

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Our next few dates, in Des Moines, passed in a blur, with everyone full of anticipation for what came next. I’d been stuck, unable to sneak out, this time cursed with an insomniac Nan. Even Sam had been trapped at home for a few nights. At least I had someone to commiserate with.

But this was the last night before we traveled to Chicago, and I decided to go for it anyway, even though Nan was awake and watching a movie. I didn’t bother asking if Sam wanted to leave together. Sharing this secret didn’t make it any less risky for me. Like I’d said to him: boy perks, he got them. And if he and Dita took their relationship public, those boy perks—and him being my Dad’s nephew instead of his son—would protect him from the full Maroni wrath and being locked in his room until age one hundred.

No such protection existed for this solnyshka, the precious only daughter. That status had its perks too, but getting away with private time with Remy—who I’d been expressly warned against—wasn’t likely to be one of them.

So I took even more care than usual passing through the shadows to the main tent. I waited, watching the entrance. Once I was certain I was alone, I darted across the green and inside the darkened backstage area—

Where hands grabbed me and spun me around. I squeaked in surprise. As soon as I processed that someone had jumped out to scare me, I expected it to be Sam. But it was Remy. He was laughing, turning me in his arms to face him. “Wow, I got you good.”

I shoved at his chest. “Not funny.”

His arms stayed around me, holding me loosely in front of him. “Funny from where I’m standing.”

Our eyes met, and his laughter died down, faded into a heavier moment. I realized this was the if moment. The possibility for more moment.

I exhaled, shaky. “Remy.”

“Yeah?”

I really shouldn’t watch his lips so closely.

Biting my own lip, I lifted a hand to his bicep. I resisted the urge to hold on, to see where this would go, and instead patted his arm. “We’d better get you up there. When you make the quad in Chicago, that’ll show them all.”

“Right.” He didn’t move for a long second.

My heart beat beat beat and I wanted him not to let me go, even though I’d as much as asked him to. But he did, releasing me with a shrug of his shoulders. He gave me a sideways glance. “After you,” he said.

I followed him through the nearly dark entryway and into the better-lit big top. I was such a coward. I’d never felt like a coward before. But what if he didn’t want the same thing as me?

“So,” he said, as we approached center ring, “Dita told me she’s been seeing Sam. He a good guy?”

“What did you tell her?” I asked.

He kept on track toward the ladder, already down in wait for his first attempt on the swing.

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