TRAILER PARK HEART
BY RACHEL HIGGINSON
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Teaser
#2:
Rolling my eyes, I waved him
off. Honestly that was a tamer word than usual. And Max was unfortunately used
to grownups saying words he wasn’t supposed to hear by now. “I’ll tell you
later, okay? Why don’t you go find a great big stick and let Mommy talk to the
scary man.”
Max tilted his head at Levi.
“I don’t think he’s scary.”
“Ha! Looks can be deceiving,” I mumbled to no one
in particular. “Go on, babe. Find a stick.” He looked up at me like I’d grown a
second head. “Then what?”
“Then... then whack that cornstalk with it.”
“Why?”
“Because
it needs to be whacked.”
“Why?”
Levi walked closer. “Just pretend it’s Darth
Vader and you’re on a mission to save the
galaxy.”
Max’s attention
swung back to Levi. “Who’s Dark Faber?”
“Who’s Darth Vader?” Levi
repeated, stunned. “What do you mean, who’s Darth Vader?” To me he said. “What
kind of parent are you? He doesn’t know who Darth Vader is?”
“He’s six,” I reminded him
patiently.
“Exactly the right age to
know about the glory that is Star Wars. You’re depriving him of a fantastic
childhood.”
“Are you seriously giving me
parenting advice right now?”
He leaned forward. “Are you seriously considering
passing it up? It’s good advice.”
A frustrated growl rumbled in the back of my
throat. Max, getting bored with our back and
forth, wandered off to whack
the cornstalk. Levi and I watched him in silence for a minute. Eventually,
curiosity got the better of me. “What are you doing here, Levi? Why are you in
my neck of the woods?”
He
shrugged, and that damnable smile was back. “I feel bad about the other day...
about the
gas station.”
I couldn’t let
him get away with his behavior then nor now. Or the questions he was hell bent
on asking. Or the sheepish,
repentant smile he was wielding like a weapon. “You have no right to stick your
nose in my business, Cole.”
He shrugged. “I’m trying to
say I’m sorry.”
It wasn’t exactly a promise
to leave me alone, but Levi didn’t usually give me what I wanted. This was
probably the best I could ask for, and yet, I couldn’t let him get away that
easily. I lifted a hand, half hidden in the sleeve of my shirt, and pointed a
finger at him. “You can mess with me, Levi, but you better not hurt my son. Got
it?”
He took a step forward,
closing some of the space between us. “Just to be clear though, you’re saying I
can mess with you, right?”
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Blurb:
Trailer park born and raised. It’s my legacy. That’s how my mama lived. And
that’s how her mama lived. It’s the life I was born into and it’s the life I
swore I would leave the second I was old enough to make it out.
Only legacies have a funny way of sneaking up on you. An innocent
decision the night of high school graduation led to a series of complications
in my plans to escape.
Seven years later, I’ve resigned myself to this small town and the
roots I’m tied to. Nothing could make me leave. And nothing could make me spill
the secrets that keep me here.
Until he walks back into town with a chip on his shoulder and a stupid
hunch nobody else in town has been smart enough to follow.
Levi Cole is my opposite. Born on the right side of the tracks with
family money to spare, he’s the kind of black sheep that can afford to be
rebellious—because his family will always pay for his mistakes. He’s also the
only living heir to Cole Family Farms, after his brother Logan was killed in
duty seven years ago.
He sees something in my life that he thinks he has a right to. But he’s
wrong. And obnoxious. And he needs to take his stubborn good looks and that
intense way he looks at me and go back to wherever it was he came from.
I know better than to trust men like him. I was born and raised in a
trailer park, I know nothing good happens to girls like me—girls with trailer
park lives and trailer park hearts. Especially from gorgeous, kind, pigheaded
men like him.
