Phoenix by Helen Hardt EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Helen Hardt
- Language: English
- Genre: Military Romance
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KELLY
“It’s nothing,” Leif says. “Just some spam.”
I hold out my hand. “Give me the phone.”
He taps on it a few times and then hands it back to me. The last
text is the one I’ve already seen.
You will get what you deserve, you traitorous bitch.
Anger crawls up the back of my neck. “You fucking erased it!”
Brindley opens the door again. “Everything all right out here?”
“Yes. Fine.” Leif walks back into Brindley’s apartment. “I’m sorry
about this, Brindley.”
I shake my head. “I can’t believe you erased my text.”
“No,” Leif says calmly. “I forwarded it to my phone, and then I deleted
it from yours.”
“The message was for me,” I grit out.
“Kelly…”
“What did it say, Leif? Give me your damned phone.”
Brindley’s eyes are wide, and her lips tremble slightly. “What did it
say?” she asks softly.
“That’s none of your fucking business, is it?” I whip my hands to my
hips. “You’re not sending these texts after all, so none of this has anything
to do with you.”
Leif sighs. “Come on, Kelly. There’s no reason to treat her that way.”
Leif is right, of course. I hate it when Leif is right. Because right now
I’m angry, and I’m not angry with Brindley. I’m angry with Leif. And with
myself. No matter how hard I try, I end up regressing to my old ways. I
strike out. I lash out. I spew nasty words. Nasty words that I want to take
back.
And then I’m forced to apologize, and apologizing is so difficult for me.
But an apology isn’t what’s first on my mind. It’s the text—the text Leif
won’t let me see.
“Why?” I demand. “Why did you delete it?”
“You know why, Kelly.”
“No, I really don’t.”
“To protect you.”
“Right.” I scoff. “Because protecting me is your job.”
Brindley’s gaze darts from me, to Leif, to me again. Her eyes are wide,
her lips still trembling. She’s frightened. Brindley is frightened for me.
As I regard her, I wonder how I ever could have thought she was behind
this. She’s so young. I’d say naïve, except that anyone who spent any time
on that island knows way too much about the world to be considered naïve.
But her freckled face… Her round cheeks… Damn. She’s still just a
girl.
I’d feel for her if I weren’t so damned mad.
“Let’s go, Kelly,” Leif says.
“Oh, hell, no. I’m done taking orders from you.”
Leif comes close to me, speaks low in my ear. “Look at Brindley.
You’ve got her so freaked out.”
“I’ve got her so freaked out? You’re the one who won’t tell me what the
text said.”
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