Shane (VALENCIA ICE MAFIA) by Lisa Lang Blakeney EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lisa Lang Blakeney
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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I TRUDGE INTO THE WARM, festive living room, the
smell of pine and cinnamon greeting me, almost like nothing’s changed. I
grew up in a house where my parents took the holidays very seriously,
wanting to make it magical for me, their golden child. My parents were
always the older couple at back-to-school nights, a result of my mother
having three miscarriages and a battle with infertility before giving birth to
me.
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It hadn’t even been six weeks after high school graduation when they
both sat me down to a dinner of my mom’s homemade soup dumplings to
have a “talk”. I immediately started crying, believing they were about to tell
me that one of them had cancer. Their mortality had always been a worry of
mine since I was a little girl.
It wasn’t cancer.
It was worse.
It was divorce.
After that, everything happened so quickly. My dad bought out my mom
for her half of the house, and she moved to a condo forty minutes away. It
happened right before my freshman year of college, but even now, it’s still
weird coming home. Nothing is the way it was. Nothing makes sense.
Especially when I walk inside and see a stranger taking up space where my
mother used to stand.
“There’s my baby girl,” my father spreads his arms, waiting for me to
run into his embrace like I did when I was a little girl. But I won’t, because
standing next to him is Shane’s mother, her bony hand entwined with
his. She’s always holding onto him like she’s afraid he’ll blow away.
“Hi, Kennedy, it’s great to see you,” she says in an annoying, wispy
voice that is the complete opposite of my mother’s strong one.
In fact, Shane’s mom is the complete opposite of mine in every way,
and I wonder what the hell my father sees in her. My mother has a slight
figure, creamy tan complexion, and beautiful onyx-colored hair
compliments of her Japanese heritage. She is gorgeous, and I count myself
blessed that I share half of her genetic code.
Shane’s mother is just okay looking. She’s a pear-shaped, pale redhead
(although I’m not sure it’s natural) and the same height as my father at five
foot nine. She’s young, polite, soft-spoken and gets on every last one of my
nerves simply because she exists.
But here’s the kicker…
The two of them met at Final Decision Day at my university and simply
because of our ill-fated connection, I haven’t been able to shake her cocky
son Shane ever since.
“Hi,” is my simple return greeting.
My dad beams at me, unaware of the storm brewing inside my chest
since Shane already gave me an idea of what I’m walking into.
“Are you hungry, Kee-Kee?” he asks, using my childhood nickname
that Shane has now weaponized against me.
“I ate on the plane,” I tell him.
“You want to go put your bags upstairs, then come back down?”
“Down for what?”
His expression flattens. “To spend some time with me. I haven’t seen
you in months.”
“Uh, sure.”
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