Jessica and the Jarhead (THE ALPHABET CREW #1) by Tilly Lebeck EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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My grandmother’s headstone was clean and white and new. Betrayal
wormed its way through me as I stared at it.
“It’s not going to work,” I said to her grave. Thunder rumbled in
the background. How dare she be gone? How dare she expect this from me?
“I know what you were thinking, making Charles and I both owners of
that cabin and putting that stupid clause in your will,” I said as I paced in
front of the grave as if she was there and could hear me. “Making us spend
a weekend there together. Alone.”
“I messed things up too bad with him,” I argued. “It’s been too many
years. He’s probably moved on. Even if he hasn’t, who’s to say that I even
feel the same way?”
I sat down in a huff on the ground. There were fresh flowers in the vase
that was attached to her headstone and I wondered briefly about who would
have put them there. Someone from one of her clubs, undoubtedly.
“Who am I kidding?” I asked the nearly empty graveyard. “I saw a
picture of him recently. He looks somehow the same, but better. Different.
More mature. I don’t know.”
Thunder rumbled again, closer to me than before, mocking me with its
agreement.
I picked at the grass and tore pieces of it up as I sat there. “I don’t think
I could stand it if he doesn’t like me,” I admitted.
Here I sat at my grandma’s grave, pouting over whether a boy liked
me, like I was that teenage girl who fell in love with him instead of the
grown woman I had become. I wished she was here to talk to in person. She
always had an opinion and wasn’t afraid to say it.
“He makes me a fool. I can’t think straight around him. It’s been ten
years!” My voice rose in volume until I shouted into the oncoming storm. A
couple standing at a nearby grave turned and stared at me. One man was
crying profusely, and the other had his arm around him, pulling him in close
as they turned away from me. Loneliness crept in, and I wished I had
someone here. Someone to hold me while I grieved. It was all too much. I
was the dutch boy with his finger in the damn trying to hold it all back. The
dam would break, and I didn’t want to be here when it did.
“I miss you,” I said. My voice was small now and I could feel tears
beginning to spill over onto my cheeks.
The sky released its hoard just then and rain came down in torrents.
The drops were heavy as they fell from the sky. I let the rain wash over me
and soak me through. My shirt and pants clung to me, but I still didn’t
move. There was no point in trying to hide from nature. It was determined
to strip me bare, regardless of my opinion.
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