Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Chloe Liese
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Women Fiction
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KATE
My life has come to this: all my worldly possessions shoved into one trusty,
albeit three-wheeled and wobbly, suitcase; seven dollars and fifty-nine cents
in my bank account; and zero idea of what comes next.
This is what I get for heeding my monthly horoscope.
As the stars align, your path shifts. Change creates new chances. Old
wounds offer wisdom. Your future awaits. The question is: Are you brave
enough to embrace it?
That damn horoscope.
Starfished on my sister Juliet’s bed, I stare at my reflection in the nearby
standing mirror and ask it, “What were you thinking?”
My reflection arches an eyebrow as if to say, You’re asking me?
Groaning, I paw around the mattress until I find my dinged-up but still
operational phone, then swipe it open to turn on music. It’s too quiet in here
and my thoughts are too loud.
Moments later, a song from my aptly named playlist, GET UR SHIT
2GETHER, fills the room. But it doesn’t help—not even the most highoctane feminist anthem can change the fact that I am so prone to act first,
think later, so easily goaded by a challenge, that one minor family crisis
coinciding with a taunting horoscope, and look where I’ve landed myself.
Home, where I haven’t been in nearly two years, or stayed for longer
than a week at a time since I graduated from college. Specifically, in my
older sister Juliet’s room while she flies over the Atlantic, headed for a stay
in the quaint Highlands cottage I’d been renting. A cottage, I quickly
realized after breaking my shoulder and having to pass on my usual
photojournalism gigs, that I couldn’t afford (neither budgeting nor saving
has ever been my forte).
Since I had a rental cottage I couldn’t pay for, and my sister Juliet
needed a change of scenery, swapping places was a no-brainer at the time.
Now, lying in my sisters’ apartment, left alone to contemplate my choices,
I’m not so sure.
As if she knows my thoughts are spiraling, my phone lights up with a
text from Beatrice, my other older sister and Juliet’s twin. I can feel her
happiness in a few simple sentences, and a wave of calm crests through me,
a reassuring reminder—I made the right decision in coming home. Not only
did it enable Jules’s much-needed escape, but it freed Bea to reunite with
her boyfriend.
BEEBEE: Hey, KitKat. I’m really sry for dashing off so
soon after you got here. I know you get why I needed to
talk to Jamie right away, but I’ll come back tonight & we
can spend time together, OK?
I bite my lip, thinking through how to respond. Neither Bea nor Jules
knows how much I know about the predicament they were in or the solution
made possible by my return. That’s because my sisters don’t know Mom
spilled the tea on our monthly phone check-in and told me everything I’d
missed:
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