Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Elle Kennedy
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- Genre: Contemporary Romance
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GENEVIEVE
Everyone even vaguely related to me is in this house. Dressed in black and
huddled together in awkward conversation around cheese plates and
casserole dishes. My baby pictures on the wall. In fits and starts, someone
clinks a fork against a bottle of Guinness or a glass of Jameson to raise a
toast and tell an inappropriate story about how Mom once rode a Jet Ski
topless through the Independence Day boat parade. While my dad looks
uncomfortable and stares out the window, I sit with my brothers and pretend
we’re familiar with these old stories about our mother, the fun-loving, lifeby-the-balls-grabbing Laurie Christine West … when in reality we never
knew her at all.
“So we were hot-boxing it to Florida in the back of an old ice-cream
truck,” starts Cary, one of my mother’s cousins. “And somewhere south of
Savannah, we hear this noise, like a rustling around, coming from the back
…”
I cling to a bottle of water, fearing what I’ll do without something in my
hands. I picked a hell of a time to get sober. Everyone I’ve run into is trying
to shove a drink in my hand because they don’t know what else to say to the
poor motherless girl.
I’ve considered it. Sliding up to my old bedroom with a bottle of
anything and knocking it back until this day ends. Except I’m still regretting
the last time I slipped.
But it would certainly make this entire ordeal slightly more tolerable.
Great-aunt Milly is doing circles around the house like a goldfish in a
bowl. Every pass, she stops at the sofa to pat my arm and weakly squeeze
my wrist and tell me I look just like my mother.
Great.
“Someone’s gotta stop her,” my younger brother Billy whispers beside
me. “She’s going to collapse. Those skinny little ankles.”
She’s sweet, but she’s starting to creep me out. If she calls me by my
mom’s name, I might lose my shit.
“I tell Louis to turn down the radio,” Cousin Cary continues, getting
excited about his story. “Because I’m trying to figure out exactly where the
noise is coming from. Thought we might be dragging something.”
Mom had been sick for months before she was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer. According to Dad, she’d dealt with a constant pain in her
back and abdomen that she’d ignored as the aches of getting older—and
then a month later she was dead. But to me, this all started only a week ago.
A call in the middle of the afternoon from my brother Jay urging me to
come home, followed by another from my dad saying Mom wasn’t going to
be around much longer.
They’d all kept me in the dark. Because she hadn’t wanted me to know.
How messed up is that?
“I’m talking about, for miles, this knocking around in there. Now, we’re
all pretty baked, okay? You gotta understand. Ran into this old-timer hippie
freak back in Myrtle Beach who hooked us up with some kush—”
Someone coughs, grumbles under their breath.
“Let’s not bore them with the details,” Cousin Eddie says. Knowing
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