The Assignment (Massey Security Duet Book 1) by S. Nelson

Author:S. Nelson
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Massey Security Duet, Book One
Publisher: S. Nelson
Published: 2019-05-19T18:30:00+00:00

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Cara

I woke up with a spark of excitement. Today was one day closer to our birthday trip to California. I could hardly wait, despite a certain someone essentially being glued to my side, even while in another state.

Naomi was almost as eager as me, but I wasn’t so sure my sister felt the same. There had been a rift between us since the day I discovered she’d sided with my parents. But because I didn’t want anything to spoil our impending birthday celebration, I decided to seek her out and have a little chat. See where her head was at and all that jazz.

I didn’t have to look far. She was laying out by the pool, reclining in one of the loungers with her nose in a book. We were different in so many ways, her obsession with books one such example. I was all for a hot, steamy romance novel, as was Emily, but she broadened her reading horizons with all sorts of genres. Mystery. Paranormal. True Crime. History. Biographies of some people whom I considered the most boring of subjects. Her last read was on Eleanor Roosevelt. But to each their own, right?

Changing into my swimsuit, I joined my sister on the patio. Owen wasn’t present, but I was sure he was somewhere nearby, as was his brother.

Images of Ford bombarded me as I sat next to Emily, and the last thing I wanted to think about right then was him. Or what I’d done last night. I wondered if he’d watched, and if so, what had he been thinking. Or to be more blunt, what had he been doing? There was no guarantee he’d seen me at all, but then the opposite could also be true.

“Hi,” I greeted, tapping the top of her book to get her attention. She’d been so enthralled she hadn’t noticed me sit down. She rested her book on her chest and smiled.

“Hi.”

We looked at each other for a moment, neither of us quite sure what to say. I wanted to pepper her with questions, to demand answers about why she’d chosen their side instead of mine, but I knew better. Whenever I came at Emily like that, she shut down and didn’t say much. She’d let me rant until I tired of the one-sided conversation, and leave. And because I never felt I was wrong, I refused to apologize. Eventually, we’d move on. But I wanted to have a real conversation this time.

“I wanted to ask you about what went down. With Mom and Dad?”

“What about it?” Her blasé tone annoyed me, but I didn’t want to get too heated too quickly. So I let it slide.

“Why didn’t you give me a heads-up? You let them blindside me.”

“I just found out an hour before they showed up at the house.” Her fingers played with the edges of her book, her dislike for any type of confrontation showing.

“It was an hour more than I had,” I shot back, making sure to keep my rising temper at bay.

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