Dirty Secret by Ki Brightly EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Ki Brightly
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Romance
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LOGAN INDRY
MIRANDA’S EYES BUGGED AS SHE HEAVED A STIFF EMBROIDERED PILLOW
from the couch in my direction. I scrambled around to the other side of the
coffee table, out of the way, but the missile pinged off the wall, knocked
down a framed poster with a dull crunch of glass, and then slapped the edge
of my betta’s bowl. The mermaid base was heavy, so it shouldn’t have been
a problem, but somehow the pillow hit it straight on, almost like that was
where Miranda had been aiming all along.
“Coy!” I yelled as I raced to stop the teetering bowl from smashing—
but I was too late. In what felt like slow motion, I stretched out my fingers
and fumbled as the bowl hit the floor with a crash. Foul-smelling cold water
splattered my pants and face as Coy flopped on the floor in the wreckage.
My heart hammering fast, I scooped him up, running into the nearby
bathroom to fill the sink with water.
“Goddamn it,” I groaned and turned on the faucet. Sweat ran down my
forehead and stung my eyes as I tipped Coy into the small amount of water
at the bottom of the sink, all while whispering a prayer. Miranda kept the
apartment at nearly eighty degrees in the winter, no matter how often I
asked her not to do that, and the temperature change between his bowl and
the tap water might be enough to kill him. I ducked down to rummage
under the sink and pulled out the drops to condition the water with a
triumphant laugh, but before I could put any in, Miranda was there beside
me. She slapped the bottle out of my hand and it skittered away across the
floor to shoot behind the toilet.
“What is wrong with you?” I asked, but it felt more like begging
because I knew I wouldn’t get a real answer.
She smacked the faucet off, but at least there was enough water in there
for the moment. Coy slowly swam around, though, and he didn’t look good.
Her nostrils flared, and I was sorry I’d ever thought she was beautiful.
Petite and blonde, she didn’t look like she’d ever be able to do any of the
awful things she regularly did. People described her as elfin, or called her
Tinkerbell, but she was really a horror show. Dressed the way she was right
now, her terrorizing was worse. The silky pink dress flared around her trim
hips and made her seem somehow sweeter. Seeing her look so harmless and
act so abysmal was worse than if she would have fit the part she played.
She flipped her long blonde hair off her shoulder and came at me with her
fists raised.
Holding my hands above my head, I let her pound on my chest even
though my adrenaline rose and all I wanted to do was shove her off. I’d hurt
her if I swiped her away. The one time I’d tried to defend myself and had
moved her, she’d gotten a small bruise on her hip in the process—because
she was still trying to come after me—and she’d threatened to go to the
cops.
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