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She shot me the stink eye. “What’s going on with you?”
“Oh, puh-leeze. My daddy has kept me under lock and key my whole life. I’m tired of it. I want to be free to live the way I want.”
“He’s the law; that’s why.”
“Don’t remind me. Sheriff Hendricks.” I made a gagging face. My daddy was newly appointed. If I thought life had been boring before, it was now as exciting as a funeral.
“Eve?” My brother, Johnny, rapped on my door. “Hey, Eve?”
I sighed. “Come in.”
The door flung open. My little brother stilled for two seconds, then gaped. “Damn, girl! You look fine.” He wolf-whistled and pretended to check me out. It would have been gross and wholly inappropriate if I didn’t know he was faking it. He wanted something. Johnny would say or do anything to get what he wanted. “Where’re you off to?”
“Out, twerp,” I sang, with a flick of my hand to shoo him away.
He pouted. “But…”
I put a hand on my hip. “What do you want?”
Johnny was a senior in high school this year, and captain of the hockey team. He was a cutie, with thick blond hair that looked like a mop, perfect for the hockey hair his teammates sported. My mother would hate it if she were alive to see it.
“Can I borrow your car?” He flashed his adorable puppy dog eyes.
“Hell no.”
“Aw, come on, Eve. Please? I’m hanging out with the guys tonight, but I’m grounded from my truck.”
“Precisely why you can’t take my car. Drinking and driving is dangerous, Johnny.” He, of all people, should know better after Momma was killed by a drunk driver.
God, he looked pathetic when he clasped his hands together. “I won’t drink. I promise.” If he dropped to his knees and begged, I might crumple to his pleas.
“Is that what you said last weekend when you begged Daddy to let you go out with the team?”
“Must you be a bitch?” he snapped.
“Yes, I must.” Smartass. I was only looking out for him. He and Daddy were all I had left in the world. And Mickey.
“You can take my car.”
I nearly broke my neck, turning toward Mickey. “No!”
“Mick, you’re the best!” He reeled her in for a bear hug. “I’ll be careful. Promise.”
And then he did it. He planted his lips on hers for a more-than-friend kiss.
I might have even seen a bit of his tongue. Ew!
Mickey gasped when he released her. She stumbled back, her face flushed.
“Shit,” I muttered.
She held out her keys. “Wow, Johnny,” she whispered, fanning her face like a Southern belle after her first kiss at a debutante ball.Sickening. “Make sure you bring it back in one piece.”
“I will, Mick. Thanks!” He jiggled the keys with a ridiculous lopsided grin on his baby face, then darted out the door.
I glared at my traitorous best friend. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done?”
She blinked rapidly, clearly still coming down from that kiss. “No. What?”
