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From what Iā€™ve garnered over the past few minutes, someoneā€™s about to learn them. Thank fuck itā€™s not me.

Daddy heads for his truck and turns over the engine. Ross Cavanaugh isnā€™t one to abandon a situation, but heā€™d agreed to muck out the stalls and feed the horses in Daveighā€™s absence this morning. Even Iā€™ll admit the second of my sisters deserved a little time off. That girl is the single one of us everyone counts on. Had Daddy balked, asking Daveigh to do her part anyway, she would have put on her work boots and driven down the road without reservation. Even assured Daddyā€™s taking care of her chores, it surprised me Daveigh wasnā€™t up with the rooster, sitting in the kitchen to watch the sunrise when I popped in there to fill a mug with raw eggs for protein. 

Momma shakes her head, touching her temple. Lord, I do not envy my twin brother this morning. Part of me considers warning him.

Upstairs, I turn on the shower and crack the door seam between the Jack and Jill bathroom connecting Ericā€™s room to mine.

ā€œIā€™m going to miss you.ā€ Ginny, his girlfriend, pulls Ericā€™s arm over her.

Sheā€™s nestled in his bed. Eric plays with her long, dark blonde locks fanning in halo against his pillow. Ginny should have left at least an hour ago so our mother doesnā€™t find her there. None of the rest of us quints are quite so clueless to consider barging into the room without knocking first. But today morbid curiosity fascinates me about their relationship instead of being envious heā€™s found the one person to make him happy.

At first, Ginny slept here nearly every weekend. Recently itā€™s become a lot more. Like a lot, a lot. She has a stepsister who lives in Maine and parents who believe sheā€™s spending all these nights with friends. I keep my mouth shut because itā€™s fun to have something to hang over Ginnyā€™s head. On a good day, I scare the bejesus out of her. What can I say? Itā€™s something I enjoy doing and keeps Ginny on her toes, reminding her Iā€™m not Eric.

Before sliding the door shut, I spy his high school soccer trophies displayed on a bookshelf. Eric plans to stay at Kingsbrier after graduation. Those will have to go. His Nickelback and Evanescence posters hang on the wall over her collection of Toby Keith and Tim McGraw compact disks. Yup, those are staying. Although, we might wind up using them for target practice.

ā€œWhatā€™s the saying about loving someone more when they go away and come back? Besides, your college is an hour from here. Weā€™ll see each other all the time. We have the entire summer before you leave, right? Coltonā€™s out of here as soon as the ink dries on his diploma.ā€

Tell it like it is, brother. I chuckle under my breath. The walls here are fucking paper thin, but I get it. Heā€™s my other half. The person who keeps me grounded. Little does Eric know heā€™s about to get grounded for the next eighteen years. I doubt heā€™ll have the chance to miss me.

ā€œWhatā€™s with the sad look all of a sudden, Sugar? Got something on your mind? No worries, okay. Someday Iā€™m going to make you Mrs. Cavanaugh. After you go and get an accounting degree.ā€

Or maybe sooner. Or maybe not at all.

My brother is a good guy and Iā€™m a dick for wanting to see this play out.

ā€œWhat if I didnā€™t go? Or what if you came with me?ā€ I hear Ginnyā€™s voice tremble with hope. Sheā€™s about to lay it on the line.

ā€œYou have to go, and Iā€™m right where Iā€™m supposed to be. My daddyā€™s construction business is my life. Iā€™ve known it since I was a kid.ā€

Damn, I can feel the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I want to keep listening, but I need a shower and if I donā€™t get wet soon, Iā€™ll regret it when Brier drags her ass home and hogs all the hot water.

I jump into the tub, rubbing the soap between my palms. I scrub my face with the lather and use the fresh woodsy scent on my pits, and my cock, and what the hell, in my shaggy blond hair too since it gets the job done quicker.

ā€œYou up, Eric?ā€ Momma calls through the locked door to his room. ā€œI need to talk to you.ā€

Ginny has no time to get dressed let alone shimmy out the low window. Instead, she wraps the top sheet around her. From behind the curtain, I see him shove her clothes underneath the bed while she flees into the bathroom. She presses her ear to the door, trying to catch what the voices were saying.

She shouldnā€™t do that. It muffles them.

ā€œIt has been a long night, so letā€™s cut to the chase, Eric. There is a rumor around town Ginny was at Richardsonā€™s Market this weekā€”ā€

ā€œLotsa people go to the grocery store, Momma.ā€ The springs squeak as Eric flops down on his bed.

Concentrating on the door, Ginny hasnā€™t heard the shower cut off.

ā€œWhatā€™re you eavesdropping on, gorgeous?ā€ I canā€™t help myself and lean my body in, pinning Ginny to the wood, and blocking her in place with my meat hooks.

My mohawk shag of white-blonde hair is dripping wet. I was nice enough to wrap a towel at my midsection. Otherwise, Iā€™m bare-chested, peering down the gap between her breasts, and licking my lips with anticipation.

I catch Gin in a stare, making her wonder what my intentions are towards her. I mean, the way weā€™re standing here with nothing but my twin brotherā€™s bedsheet separating us leaves little to the imagination. And Iā€™d like to know what the hell she was thinking when she devised this plan.


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Iā€™m pinned against the bathroom door by Colton. He doesnā€™t particularly like me. He doesnā€™t seem to like anyone except his brothers and sisters. But thatā€™s the least of my many problems right now. Ericā€™s mother is delivering the news Iā€™ve been to chicken to give my boyfriend. 

I love Eric and, for both of our sakes, I need to hear whatā€™s being discussed in my boyfriendā€™s room. Iā€™m not sure what Miss Rose actually knows. I do know it had been stupid going to a local store. Brier would have had a better plan. Brier always finds a way to make it look like she keeps her nose clean.

ā€œI donā€™t know who yā€™all think you are fooling. Ginnyā€™s tennis shoes are right there and Iā€™ll bet you the bright pink stain on the heel is from stepping on my azaleas.ā€ Rose notifies her son.

Weā€™ve been found out. Moreover, Iā€™ve been found out. I forgot I stepped on a fallen petal climbing through the window last night in my cheap white tennis shoes.

Planting a different bush under each window is how Miss Rose intended to catch every sneaky child in this house. It doesnā€™t explain Brierā€™s absence, but the rest of us went to bed sure that girl weaseled her way out, yet again, without using the front door.

Rose raises her voice, ā€œColton, for heavenā€™s sake, let your brotherā€™s pregnant girlfriend be. Ginny, get your butt out here.ā€

I let out a long-held breath. While Eric is built lean and muscular through construction work, his twin brother is massive from playing football and weight training. Being near Colton clothed is intimidating enough, I donā€™t want to consider our proximity given the lack thereof. 

My jaw drops. Pregnant. Eric knows Iā€™m having a baby.

Coltonā€™s light eyebrows raise. He laughs menacingly under his breath, mocking, ā€œI have no use for my brotherā€™s leftovers.ā€ Turning to walk toward his own space, he adjusts the towel, flashing me his ass. ā€œYou know heā€™s broke, right? We donā€™t see a penny until we turn twenty-five. Good luck raising that thing, cuz there ainā€™t no changing my grandaddyā€™s will.ā€

Tears prick behind my eyes. Iā€™ve only cried once so far because there is no sense in denying this situation is all my fault. If Coltonā€™s reaction is the ugliest of any I have to face, Iā€™m glad for it to be over. Unfortunately, I wasnā€™t the one to tell Eric, which makes me more upset and anxious. Iā€™ve been trying to find a way to break the news to him. What I did was wrong.

The idea of being apart from Eric has been tearing me up for months. There had been times recently Iā€™d fancied the two of us living in an off-campus apartment in Beaumont, with our collective things intertwined in the truest sense; His cowboy boots next to my Doc Martens. It had been fleeting. Eric intends to stay here. I never wanted to force him away from the life he saw himself living, but I am guilty of throwing it off track.

Eric doesnā€™t need to leave town to find himself, he knows who he is. Come July, heā€™s moving out of this gigantic house and paying rent to live in one of the stablehand apartments. He plans to work his way up in the family business. There are concepts heā€™ll never acquire in a classroom, things Mr. Cavanaugh will teach Eric, and heā€™s a capable learner. Eric isnā€™t fool enough to believe he wonā€™t need some sort of higher education to round him out. Heā€™s taking a few courses here and there and itā€™s why heā€™s pushing me to go away without him.

Good men like Eric are hard to find. I would know. My Daddy had been one of those men. His death when I was eight hit the community hard. My motherā€™s second husband plays to everyoneā€™s sympathy. His public face is a show, the private one enough to make my fingers curl into fists. Everyone thinks heā€™s upstanding and that we live a lovely life. One similar to the kind the Cavanaughā€™s have, without the luxury. I could do without any extravagance if it allows me to regain some of the security I felt when my mother and real daddy had been married.

Iā€™ve compared our love story to my parentsā€™. Eric played dumb to get me to help him in math class. I was quick to unravel his scheme. A boy canā€™t know how to read a blueprint with levels and not have an idea of geometry. Eric is the quiet one who keeps to himself and itā€™s doubtless Iā€™d have fallen for his shy smile without him even placing designs on me. Heā€™s not watching the world pass him by; heā€™s a keen observer with a soul older than his years.

All the girls in are aware a Kingsbrier son is a catch, but despite Coltonā€™s nasty remark, Iā€™ll love Eric when heā€™s dirt poor. Maybe someday Iā€™ll forgive Colton for his harsh words too.

Other than the same blonde hair and green eyes, for twins they are no more alike than any of the other Kingsbrier siblings. Perhaps their bond is because they once were identical and itā€™s why Eric talks more about Colton than their oldest brother, Adam, who is much nicer to everyone.

The truth about the baby hasnā€™t left the tip of my tongue. I havenā€™t swallowed it down or spit it out. Day after day keeping the secret from Eric burns regret into my soul. There have been countless times Iā€™ve stumbled trying to tell Eric. I was almost there before his mother interrupted. Then heā€™d gone and done it again, making the situation all about his brother enlisting in the Navy.

In the end, it doesnā€™t matter anymore why I lost my nerve. Why I snuggled down one last night into the softness of his sheets, lost in the sensation of our bodies moving together when I knew today Iā€™d have to face the music. Eric deserved better than being lied to. Thatā€™s what Iā€™ve been doing since I realized the tests from

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