Flame (MONTANA MOUNTAIN PROTECTORS #3) by Gemma Weir EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Gemma Weir
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CURRENT DAY
“Bruce, I don’t need to stay with Oscar.”
“Your brother—”
“He isn’t my brother,” I say, putting as much force as I can into
my words, although they still barely come out as more than a whisper.
“He’s happy to have you.” Bruce says, oblivious to my tone.
“Octy and I are going to move in together once she gets to town. I’ll
only be alone for a week before she gets there, and I’d be more comfortable
in a hotel.”
“Nonsense, you can stay with family, that way you’ll be in familiar
surroundings.” Bruce just keeps talking, like he hasn’t heard a word I’ve
said.
“I haven’t seen Oscar in fifteen years,” I protest, hating how hard
conflict still is for me, even when Bruce, my stepdad, is trying to railroad
me.
“Then this will be the perfect time for you both to spend some time
together, he is your brother after all.”
“He’s not my brother,” I repeat, hating the frisson of fear that rushes
through me at just the thought of seeing my childhood bully again.
I didn’t know it at the time, but the day I’d hidden outside on the back
step and covered my ears to drown out the sounds of Oscar and Bruce
arguing was the last time I’d ever seen him. Now as an adult, I know that
he’d turned up at the house for Labor Day weekend, and instead of
destroying my bedroom and making my life hell, he’d told his dad that he
would no longer be visiting our house on holidays and that if Bruce went to
a judge to try to force the visitation, he would apply to become an
emancipated minor.
The ensuing argument that had driven me out into the yard was the last
one Bruce and Oscar would ever have in that house. It took me two Oscarfree years before I stopped having panic attacks in the weeks before a
holiday, and it wasn’t until I left home to go away to school years later that
I could even think his name without having a visceral trauma reaction.
When my friend Octavia, or Octy for short, called me up and said that
she was moving to Montana to work in her friend Betty’s new studio, I was
super pleased for her, but a little surprised that she was willing to move
away from Rapid City, where she’s lived for the last three years.
We met when she was apprenticing as a tattoo artist in a Las Vegas
studio. I’d just graduated from college with a degree in marketing and had
been employed by the owner of the studio, who was launching a lifestyle
brand, and wanted someone to help him with his social media marketing.
The first day I walked into the studio, I nearly walked straight back out
again. I was twenty-two, wearing a pantsuit, sensible black-heeled pumps
and completely tattooless. The girl working the front desk actually laughed
when I said it was my first day and that I was the new social media
marketing associate.
Octy had been the one to tell Lauren to go fuck herself. She’d taken me
under her wing, befriended me, and helped me survive the first few months,
when no one else at the studio would even talk to me.
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