Valentine's Blizzard Murder by Linnea West

Author:Linnea West [West, Linnea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

"Tessa, are you alright?"

Someone had their hand on my shoulder, shaking me awake. Crying away my emotions had been exhausting and at some point I had dozed off. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. The snow was still blowing like crazy outside, which made it hard to know what time it was or how long I had been sleeping. I had to imagine it wasn't long since I was in the kitchen.

I glanced up and saw that Clark had been the one to shake me awake. Great, as if I wasn't upset enough, let's add that the man I've been seeing who kissed another girl in my house. I really didn't want to deal with this situation right now, but we were both stuck in this house until the storm was gone.

"Are you alright?" Clark asked again.

"No," I said. "I mean yes, but no. I don't really want to talk about it."

"You can tell me Tessa," Clark said.

I stood up and looked at his face. Clark was at least a head taller than me, which was both exciting and annoying. His height made him seem like a protector, but it also meant that kissing was an interesting experiment in tip-toe balancing, not that I wanted to think about kissing him right now. He put his hand on my elbow and gazed down into my eyes.

"Please, Tessa, is it about Peter?" he asked quietly.

I pulled back involuntarily, hating the sound of Peter's name coming from his lips. Between the emotional roller coaster I had just sent myself on and the sudden realization that we were standing on the same spot where I had caught him kissing Candy, I felt myself fill up with negativity.

"You want to talk about my dead husband?" I snarled. "Maybe we should talk a little bit about you kissing Candy. Should we drag all of the other loves of our life into our conversation?"

Clark's eyebrows knit together as he tried to follow my train of thought. As I spoke, I know it didn't make any sense, but my anger was like a runaway train right now and I wasn't sure where it was going to end up. I took another step back from him. I didn't want to be close enough to smell his cologne and see his cute dimple. The anger was welling up inside and I wanted it to.

"Tessa, you know that Candy and I date just like you and Max do," Clark said. I think if I wasn't filled with anger he would have sounded reasonable, but through my rage glasses he sounded like he was trying to tell me to calm down. And no one tells me to calm down.

"Yeah, but I don't bring him to your house and kiss him in your kitchen," I yelled slamming a chair into the table. "If there wasn't a blizzard raging outside, I would have asked you to leave yesterday. But while I don't hate you enough to want you to get lost in this blizzard, I would like you to stay away from me.

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