Up in the Middle of Nowhere by Blair Bryan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Blair Bryan
- Language: English
- Genre:Women’s Divorce Fiction
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I hate you!”
“You’re not too high on my list of favorite people right now, either,”
Tessa argued as she cranked up the volume on the radio and hummed along
as frustration thrummed through her limbs. Taking her rage out on the gas
pedal as she drove them home, she slammed her foot down on the
accelerator. She wasn’t going to fall for it. At seventeen, Nova loved to
push her buttons and often had a penchant for the dramatics. Instead, Tessa
kept her thoughts to herself, clamping her lips together to prevent a negative
torrent of them from escaping. She knew words said in anger cut the
deepest scars and could never be taken back, but containing them at the
moment was proving a monumental task.
“I’m going to go live with Dad!” Nova shouted to her mother over the
music.
Appalled by this declaration, Tessa yanked the steering wheel hard to
the right to pull off on the shoulder and slammed on the brakes. Forcing the
car into park, she turned toward her daughter’s petulant face. Dressed in
black from head to toe, wearing six-inch black platform boots and copious
amounts of smudged black eyeliner, Nova’s recently favored style was
gothic punk. Of all the versions of her daughter she’d experienced through
the years, it was Tessa’s least favorite. During the last few months, Nova’s
chosen armor was sharp edges and dark colors, a physical look that matched
her daughter’s often melancholy and combative mood. A spiked choker
circled the porcelain skin of Nova’s throat, and black fishnet gloves encased
her delicate wrists.
As a budding artist, Nova adored theatrical clothing and dramatic
makeup that made a statement and turned heads when she was in public.
Nova relished the attention from random strangers, their long stares and shy
compliments, but Tessa’s boyfriend, Jason, did not. He became flat-out
embarrassed to be seen with Nova in public when she segued from concert
t-shirts and jeans into a full-blown gothic costume. It was one of many
bones of contention between Nova and Jason that had made living under the
same roof lately an arduous task. Nova and Jason faced off from opposite
corners of the ring, reducing Tessa to referee their frequent arguments. It
was a draining dynamic Tessa fought her way through daily.
“Let me get this straight. You’re talking about going to live with the
same dad that moved a thousand miles away last year without so much as a
goodbye?”
Nova wrapped her arms around her middle, huffed her displeasure, and
stared out the window. There was an impenetrable wall that they’d both
erected between themselves when Nova turned thirteen. They’d constructed
it brick by brick without even realizing they were doing it.
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