Элли Блейк – Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue (страница 9)

Wynnie’s bottom bouncing came to a halt when she realised Hannah had been pulling her leg about the bartender to get a true answer about Lady Killer Kelly. And she’d given it in surround sound, with Technicolor and subtitles.

‘I have to go,’ Wynnie said, finding her shoes with her feet. ‘The local farmer’s market closes at eight and I’m all out of kumquats.’

She grabbed her battered travel purse from the bar, slid her feet back into her shoes, hopped off the bar stool and pressed her way through the crowd.

‘Kumquats? That’s one I’ve never heard before.’ Hannah, three inches taller than Wynnie even in her flats, caught up all too easily. ‘And just because you thought the sun shone from Felix’s you-know-what and he turned out to be a total screw-up that doesn’t mean every man you ever meet will do the same. Trust me.’

Wynnie saw a gap open up within a huge group of uni students and took it. Alone.

A screw-up? Felix hadn’t just been a screw-up. Her kid brother, her only remaining family, the beautiful boy who’d never even had the heart to step on a spider he was so attuned with the world around him, had done something so heinous, so out of character, hurting people all in the name of saving the planet. And to add insult to injury he’d left her to clean up the mess she hadn’t even seen coming. And she’d never laid eyes on him since.

Trust was now a four-letter word.

When she reached the sidewalk she bounced on her toes as her eyes scanned the streets for an empty taxi.

‘Heard from him yet?’ Hannah asked from beside her.

There was no point pretending she didn’t know Hannah was talking about her brother. She shook her head so hard her butterfly came loose. She reached out and caught it before it hit the ground. Her heart thundered in her ears at the thought she might have broken it—the only thing she still had that had once belonged to her beautiful, brilliant, progressive parents. She could only be thankful they had both gone by the time Felix changed.

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