Mind Games by Nora Roberts EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nora Roberts
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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For Thea, the very best part of summer started the second week of June.
The last day of school earned a big red heart, and meant she could start
swimming and splashing around in the backyard pool, which she loved. She
could ride her bike and play with her friends every day. Though they didn’t
call it playing anymore. Now they hung out.
She was twelve, after all.
She liked cookouts, and long summer days, and she especially liked no
homework.
But every year, just about a week after that big red heart day, she piled in
the car with her mom; her dad; her little brother, Rem; and their dog, Cocoa.
They started the long drive from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Redbud
Hollow, Kentucky.
Her mom grew up there but had gone off to Virginia to college, where
she met John Fox on the very first day in the very first class.
And the rest, like they said—or like her dad said—was history.
They married the summer after their sophomore year, and ten months,
two weeks, and three days after, she’d come along. Not quite two years
later, Rem popped out.
Now her dad designed houses and her mom decorated them. Their
company, Fox and Fox Homes, did just fine.
She knew stuff. Grown-ups didn’t think kids knew much of anything
important, but she did. She knew her grandparents, her dad’s parents, were
rich and snooty, and didn’t think much of her mom—the girl from eastern
Kentucky.
But her dad’s parents lived out in San Diego, so they didn’t have to see
them much. Which was more than fine with Thea. She didn’t have to hear
Grandmother—that was the snooty name they had to call her—think her
thoughts about how her mom laughed too loud or would never shake the
Appalachian dust off her shoes.
She could hear those thoughts if she tried hard enough, and when she
had to visit Grandmother, she couldn’t seem to help it.
She thought so loud.
Grandmother and Grandfather didn’t seem to care that John and Cora
Fox were happy, and even successful. That they all lived in a pretty house in
a nice neighborhood. That Thea and Rem (or as they insisted, Althea and
Remington) did even better than okay in school.
But Grammie cared. They all talked on the phone every week on Sunday,
and at Christmastime, Grammie drove up with her truck full of presents
she’d made. Most of the time her uncles Waylon and Caleb came, too, so
they had a big family party, and the house was all full of music and lights
and the smells of baking.
That was her second favorite time of the year.
But the best time, even though they had to drive for seven whole hours,
and sometimes more, came in June.
They always left bright and early, and passed the time with Road Trip
Bingo. Rem usually fell asleep, and sometimes she did, too, but they always
gave a hoot and holler when they crossed the line into Kentucky.
They stopped for barbecue and hush puppies—that was tradition. She’d
be hungry when they did, but always wished they could just keep going,
keep going and get there.
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