Oklahoma Moonshine (The McIntyre Men #1) by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thunder foot Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

Kendra shook a cigarette from a pack in her purse and lit up, blowing smoke into the night air as she paced away from the house.

It was dark, the wide sky full of stars, crickets singing like a chorus. The air was a warm kiss on Kiley’s face. Rare thing, a humid night here. There was rain in the air.

“Place hasn’t changed a bit, has it?” Kendra asked, rubbing her arms and looking around as if she’d missed it.

“What is this, Kendra?” Kiley stopped walking and tried again to swallow the lump in her throat. She didn’t know what the heck had just happened between her and Rob, but it had felt very important. And she couldn’t even bask in it, much less analyze it right now, because of Kendra.

She wanted to hug her sister again and weep for joy that she wasn’t dead. But it would be kind of like hugging a porcupine and hoping not to get stabbed. So she stood there in front of the house where they’d lived together, grown up together, raised hell together, and she stared at her sister in the darkness. It felt like looking at a stranger. She was so cold, so hard.

“What do you think it is?” Kendra asked.

“I think you heard the place was being sold and came here to try to get your hands on it.”

Kendra started walking away from the house and around toward the back. “Is the boulder still there, down by the river?”

“Where would it go?”

She shrugged, took another puff. The smoke made a little cloud around her head.

“Tell me why you came back,” Kiley said.

“Same reason you did. I was homesick. I just…wanted to see the place again. I didn’t expect you to be here.”

“You didn’t come to buy it?”

“With what?” She puffed, blew angrily, shook her head, her dead straight strawberry blond hair punctuating the motion. “I don’t have enough to buy a fucking cup of coffee, Kiley. I’m broke, and I’m hungry and I’m homeless. And my own sister won’t take me in. What the hell am I supposed to make of that?”

“You’re lying.” Kiley knew for a fact her sister had money. She’d stolen it from that oversized, lovesick Dax. She glanced at the car, a late model Prius and said, “You’ve got wheels.”

“Borrowed.”

“Has it been reported stolen yet?”

“Borrowed,” Kendra said again. “God Kiley, you’ve changed. What are you, some kind of princess now? Big shot landowner? How’d you get the money to pay for the place, anyway? Or is he the one who bought it?”

“It’s none of your business.”

“What kind of game are you working here, sis?”

Kiley shook her head. “It’s not a game.”

“No?”

“No.” She truly had changed, though, Kiley thought. She felt it like never before, maybe because of the stark contrast she could see between her and Kendra now that her sister was right there beside her. The pictures she’d been painting of her future life used to seem like impossible dreams. But she didn’t see them that way anymore.

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