Antidote by Shae Ruby EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Shae Ruby
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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10 YEARS OLD
It’s been a couple of years since it’s been just my dad and me. He says
it’s because Mom couldn’t take care of me anymore, and she had to go. I
say it’s because she was selfish and didn’t care about me. She only cared
about her drugs.
I’m only ten—except I’m not stupid. I’ve paid attention to the way she
always missed my soccer games and how she never followed through with
taking me to my art classes. My dad had to do it all, and he didn’t complain
once. But I noticed how she was never there, and no matter how much I told
myself it was okay, it still hurt.
Now, my dad has met someone new. He said she and her son Hunter
would be moving in with us soon. Apparently, they’ve been seeing each
other for a while, but he didn’t want to introduce us until they were sure.
About what, I don’t know. But they’re getting married soon, is all he told
me.
Hunter and Lucy are from Atlanta, Georgia. They will be moving into
our house in North Carolina soon, but Dad said he wanted us to meet them
where they’re comfortable, so here we are—in an aquarium—one of my
favorite places to go. I’ve always been obsessed with whale sharks, and
apparently, this is one of the only places in the United States that has them.
My hands shake slightly as we wait for them by the whale sharks, and I
twist my fingers to keep them from being noticeable. I don’t know why I’m
nervous. I guess I don’t exactly have lots of friends, but I get by.
Someone steps up to me, standing at my side until our shoulders are
brushing. We’re about the same height, and when I look next to me, there’s
a kid with light brown hair and the darkest green eyes I’ve ever seen. My
stomach flips when he smiles at me, and I gulp at the unfamiliar feeling.
“So I guess we’re gonna be brothers?” I ask him with a small smile, if
only to not make this awkward for either of us.
“I guess so.” He says. “But we don’t have to share a room, thank God.”
I snort at that. “What’s your name?”
“Hunter.” He replies with awe on his face as he glances at the whale
sharks.
“You have really green eyes,” I blurt, then almost smack myself for it.
“And you have really blue ones. Oliver, right?”
I nod.
“I can be Green.” He grins. “If you’ll be Blue.”
I smile back, then gesture at him to sit with me on the ground. “I’d like
that.”
We spend the next few minutes in silence, watching the fish and the
whale sharks. I look at him, really look at him, and realize he’s pretty—for
a boy. His eyes are big, his cheeks pink from the cold, and his lips are big
and pouty.
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