Enjoy this excerpt from Her Kind of Man. There are betrayals, and then there are betrayals... Katie, Kara, and Kelly are sisters, and Brandon is engaged to Kara.
As they left the theater and
crossed the parking lot, Katie turned her head at the sound of a car door
slamming.“Why, there’s Kelly and Brandon.”
Kara looked in the direction
of Katie’s pointing finger. “Great! They can….” Her voice trailed off as Kelly moved into Brandon’s
passionate embrace!
“What…?” Kara’s words choked
her as Brandon buried his hands in Kelly’s hair and kissed her as if he held
the world’s greatest treasure in his arms.
Katie grabbed her arm. “Come
on. We’re getting to the bottom of this.”
Kara dragged her feet as
Katie towed her across the parking lot. “Katie, maybe….”
“What’s wrong with you?”
Katie glared over her shoulder. “Hurry up!”
Kelly and Brandon were still wrapped around
each other when Katie and Kara reached them.
“Kelly! ” Katie exclaimed. “What do
you think you’re doing?”
Kelly jerked away from
Brandon so fast she stumbled and had to grab his arm to keep her balance. Even
in the parking lot’s dim light, Kara saw her sister’s face had gone scarlet as
had Brandon’s.
Kara didn’t say anything.
She couldn’t.
Kelly flinched as Brandon
took her hand and squeezed it. “I’m sorry, Kara. We never meant for you to find
out this way.”
“What were you going to do?”
Katie demanded with a wave of her hand. “Leave her at the altar?”
“No,” Kelly replied. Her
eyes glittered like two burning blue coals. “We planned to tell her tomorrow
night. That way she’d have the weekend off to…to…to get used to things .”
Brandon looked Kara directly
in the face for the first time. “I’m sorry, Kara. You have to know I never
meant to hurt you, but I can’t marry you if I’m in love with your sister.”
Kara didn’t bother to
answer. She didn’t know what to say anyway.
How do you act, what do you do, when you catch the man you love kissing
your sister? Her sister! Oh, how could she? This betrayal by one of her nearest
and dearest cut to the bone.
She gritted her teeth to
hold back her tears and hurled Brandon’s beautiful ring toward him and Kelly.
He tried to catch it, but he missed, and the ring landed at his feet.
“Let’s go, Katie,” she said.
She spun on her heel and stomped away with her head held high.
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