Annette Broadrick – Megan's Marriage (страница 8)
At least her youngest sister had the decency to blush. “Well, nothing, really. He was just asking about you and all and I told him—Well, I guess I may have mentioned that you were making yourself sick worrying about us maybe going to lose the ranch.”
Mollie sank down at the other end of the couch and stared at Maribeth. “Maribeth! You didn’t! You can’t go around telling everybody our business like that!”
“I wasn’t. Everybody already knows everything about us, anyway. It’s no secret that we’re probably going to lose the ranch. So what’s the big deal?”
Mollie shook her head in disgust. “Well, you don’t go around blabbing everything you know,” she replied.
Megan dropped her head back against the couch. “Oh, yes she does!” she said with a sigh.
“Well, he was asking about you and I was just trying to be polite and—”
“More than likely, you were trying to hold his attention just a little longer,” Mollie said. “You and Bobby would be charter members of his fan club if he had one.”
Maribeth swung her legs over the side of the chair. “Hey! That’s a great idea. Maybe we can start—”
“I was just joking,” Mollie said hastily. “Travis Kane certainly doesn’t need a fan club! His ego’s already big enough as it is.”
“You can say that again,” Megan muttered.
Maribeth stuck her bottom lip out. “I don’t know why y’all have to be so hateful about Travis. What has he ever done to make you both sneer at him so much?”
Megan shifted, pulling her knees up and resting her chin on them. She wasn’t comfortable with the turn in the conversation but she couldn’t think of any way to change the subject that wouldn’t be too obvious.
She was surprised when Mollie answered. She had seldom heard Mollie so vocal. “Because he thinks he’s God’s gift to women, that’s why. Always swaggering around in those tight jeans he wears, with his hat brim pulled down low over those fancy mirror sunglasses of his, giving all the girls that drop-dead gorgeous smile so they’ll swoon at his feet. I think he’s perfectly disgusting.”
Megan’s heart seemed to sink in her chest. “I had no idea you disliked him so,” Megan said quietly.
Mollie glanced around at her in surprise. “Well, you’ve never had much good to say about him, yourself! I remember when you were both in school, you used to come home complaining about him and calling him all kinds of names. Mama used to laugh at how mad you got at him, remember?”
“I was just a kid. He used to delight in teasing me on the school bus to and from school. Since it was almost an hour to get to town, he had plenty of time to think of ways to torment me.”
“Well,” Mollie replied, her cheeks flushed with color, “my friend Betsy told me about how he flirted with her older sister, carrying on until her sister fell in love with him, then he just dropped her like that, like she was nothing to him. He’s broken a lot of hearts in this county. I think he should go away and stay away!”
“Well,
Megan just shook her head. “Here we go again. If Bobby says it, it must be gospel, right?”
“Well, he knows rodeos. He and his dad are always going to them. He’s seen Travis compete and says he’s totally awesome. That’s why he was named World Champion last year.”
Megan uncurled herself from the couch and stood. “Well, I think I’m going to take myself off to bed. You’re really making me feel my years, Maribeth,” she said, ruffling her sister’s long wavy hair. “I take it you had a good time in town.”
“Oh, yeah. Rita’s a lot of fun. Her mom said to tell you that anytime I want to spend the night in town, that I can stay with them.”
“Well, I’m glad to hear you didn’t totally wear out your welcome.”
She glanced at Mollie, caught her eye and nodded toward the hallway. “I’ll see y’all in the morning.”
Megan climbed the stairs to her bedroom. She hoped Mollie recognized her signal. She wasn’t going to be able to sleep tonight until she talked to her and tried to explain.
She hadn’t realized Mollie’s feelings toward Travis were so strong or so negative. Megan knew that she had herself to blame for some of that. She’d never kept her disdain for Travis hidden from Mollie or anyone else around home. Now she was going to be forced to provide some kind of explanation for the change in her attitude—without giving the real one. If Travis preferred people not to know the truth, she owed him that much.
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