✨EXCERPT: ALWAYS MEANT FOR YOU by Krista Sandor releasing August 21!
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“If you think this is your big moment to step into my big brother’s shoes and start bossing me around, don’t waste your breath, farm boy.” I keep my tone steady, even as everything inside me vibrates.
We buried my brother today, and I can’t let my brother’s best friend, Cal, the man who has treated me like I’m invisible, think he can chastise me for standing up to the small-town gossips.
A flush creeps up Cal’s neck. He takes a step closer. “I have no desire to be your brother, Mabel.”
His breath brushes my lips.
This is the closest we’ve been in years.
I hold my ground.
He’s taller by at least a good six inches, but I meet his gaze head-on. His eyes are steel blue-gray like the sky before a thunderclap. And this is a storm I’ve seen coming for years.
“You could never take my brother’s place. You’ve ignored me every day since I was thirteen years old.”
There. I said it.
It’s been eight years of silence.
Eight years of dancing around being invisible to him.
The words hang between us, raw and electric.
Heat surges through me, fueled by the fury of being overlooked, the ache of wanting more from this man, the unbearable thrill of speaking the truth.
And Cal?
His eyes don’t soften. No, they blaze, locked on mine, daring me to flinch, to yield, to be the one to break first.
This is the storm, cracking through the silence.
It’s here, blowing in and ready to slice the sky.
And it’s about time.
Let it come.
Let it tear us apart.
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