Page 4 of Fate
I paused at my own impossible prejudice. I had never judged anyone so fast like I had Fate. Why? I usually accepted people right off. What was the big deal anyway? He was just being friendly right? I was probably getting all worked up over nothing. Who said he was actually interested in me at all. I released a sigh and admitted to Belle, “You’re right. I mean he is just being friendly.” I also knew my mom wouldn’t approve of me being rude to a stranger with no other reason besides the fact that he was too fucking hot for his own damned good.
Yep. With that dazzling smile, bright dancing eyes, beautiful skin, tall, wide shouldered, long legs, smooth walk and great sense of humor.Wow, Bridge. You never noticed him eh?I chuckled at the self delusion I had been trying to facilitate.
Belle smiled at me. “Gosh, if I didn't know any better…”
I raised a brow at her as I picked my tea glass up and asked, “What?”
“You like him, don’t ya?” she asked as she kept her voice at a whisper.
I snorted in disbelief of what she was implying. There was too much to like so really…she was wrong. “Well, I have two questions for you,Belle baby. Number one: are we in high school now? And two…Are you off your freakin’ rocker? I don’t even know him.”
“Yeah and I didn’t know Liberty when I was rude like you’re being.” She shrugged and chuckled. “Well, I was more than rude. I told him off whenever I saw him. Like I wanted to punch him in his smirking mouth, then drop kick him to the floor, just so I could laugh at him while he was down on his wise ass.”
I stared at Belle with round eyes. “Wow, you were really in love weren’t you?”
“Head over heels,” Liberty piped up. “She loved me so much that she wanted to do some real violence to my person.”
I swung my gaze past her to him. Oh shit, he had heard all of it.
The man wore a huge grin on his face. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop.” He then shook his head. “No, actually that is a lie. I did mean to.”
The man had a great sense of humor, so I snorted a little, then drank the last of my tea and set the glass down to look past Belle, over at him. “I can see why she wanted to punch you and I myself can get with the dropkicking part too.”
He burst into laughter. “Geeze, you both are pretty brutal. But do me a favor, will ya?”
I cocked my head at him and asked, “And that would be?”
“Give Fate the hardest time of it. He does like you whether you realize it or not. So, I am asking that you make this as hard on him as possible. The kid needs it.”
I stared at him. “For one, he doesn’t look like a kid to me. And two: aren’t you and he the same age?”
Liberty scoffed. “Bite your tongue, woman! I have always been the oldest.” He then laughed again. “I just feel like he needs some of what I got from Belle. You know, for humbling and all that?”
“So, you mean he needs a drop-kicking, smack in the mouth, ass whooping?” I asked.
Laughing, Liberty nodded. “Something like that. I mean Belle did the same to me and I sure as hell deserved it. My brother however, is even more smug and full of himself than I am.”
“Impossible!” Belle teased him as she grinned at him. Then she grasped his jaw and said, “You aren’t minding your own business, Liberty man. What have I told you?”
He smirked like he was thoroughly enjoying this little game and took a guess, “Not to burp so loud?”
“No…” She shook her head at him.
“Not to interrupt people when they are talking, especially you?”
“Nooo, but that’s a good one to remember.” She grinned at him. “Keep guessing.”
“Oh! Do not butt into other people’s biz wax?”
Nodding, she pointed at him. “Yes! That one.”
He kept chuckling and turned a bit in his seat to call down to another Walker, “Hey Hawk, did you guys put up another weightlifting station in the barn?”
With a self satisfied nod of her head, Belle told him, “Good shifting of attention there, Liberty.” She again looked over at me and whispered, “I see the look on your face when Fate talks toyou. The man is so good looking that it makes you wanna puke, right?”
I chuckled and couldn’t help but agree, “Absolutely.”
“When he smiles at you, it is too dazzling. So you wanna make that grin go away immediately. Like even if you have to slap it away?”
