Heartbreak Highway 1 by Harper Whitmore Read Free Book Online

remember to check the look on her face.
    “You sound disappointed. Did you not want Simone to come?” Marshall asked her.
    Damn! Eva thought. Stupid Pink Ladies! It’s like truth serum! She thought all of that, thinking that when she opened her mouth a white lie would come out, as it should. Instead, she heard herself say in slightly slurred speech,
    “Not really. I was just looking forward to it being you and me.”
    Marshall looked surprised, but there was a smile playing at the corners of his mouth as he said,
    “You and me and surfer dude?”
    “Oh, him….I was just….Oh God, I think I’m going to be sick….”

Chapter 6
    M arshall stood outside the bathroom door and listened as Eva retched and coughed. He really wanted to do something for her, but she had forbade him from coming inside. Knocking softly when the noises stopped, he said,
    “Eva, are you okay?”
    There was a long silence and then she finally said,
    “Yeah, I’m fine. I’ll be right out. You don’t have to stay by the door.”
    Marshall smiled but he was sure not to laugh. If she heard him it would only piss her off. He had tried to stop her after the fourth pink lady. Eva wasn’t a drinker and people who didn’t drink often sometimes didn’t realize how lethal pretty, sweet drinks can be. Marshall blamed himself; at the very least he should have made sure she had food in her stomach before he took her out drinking, and he never, ever should have left her alone. That surfer creep had his hands all over her.
    He heard the water in the sink shut-off and then the door cracked open. Eva had pulled her long blonde hair away from her face and tied it in a ribbon at the nape of her neck. She’d washed off all of her make-up and her skin had that just scrubbed fresh glow about it. What Marshall loved most about her though were her hazel eyes. That first day he’d met her, fifteen years ago, her eyes were the first thing he’d noticed. They had looked brown at first but when you got close enough to her, you could see the thick, green ring around the outside of the iris. He found out that like a mood ring, the color of her eyes could change with her mood. Marshall had objected to her fishing with him and Granddad and they had turned a dark brown. When Granddad told him he was being rude, and of course she could join them, Eva had turned to him and stuck out her tongue. At that moment, her eyes had been green and it had freaked Marshall out a little bit, having never known anyone who could change the color of her eyes. For the first couple of weeks he knew her he’d wondered if she was a witch. Now that they were grown, he found it incredibly sexy. He did his best to hide that from her though. Eva was his oldest friend, and Marshall had learned a long time ago how to master his self-control around her. She had never given him any indication that she saw him as anything more than a friend and he couldn’t bear the thought of losing her, especially over something as insignificant as sex. If there was more between them than that maybe…..Sex he had in droves if he wanted it, best friends…he only had one.
    “How are you feeling?” he asked.
    “Embarrassed,” she said.
    “Oh please, you’ve seen me drunk off my ass more than once. You don’t have anything to be embarrassed about. I shouldn’t have let you drink so much.”
    Eva smirked and said, “Right, because you’re my keeper.”
    “Well….”
    “Oh please don’t tell me it’s in the guide book that you’re my keeper?”
    “Not your keeper, per say….He just said I better keep you safe or he’d come back and haunt me later on in life.”
    Eva laughed, but she was touched. Even in death Henry was looking out for her.
    * * *
    Eva opened one eye and a sharp pain shot through her forehead. She closed it again. She was so thirsty, she felt like her mouth had been stuffed all night with cotton. Her teeth ached and she could smell the unimaginable stench that was her own breath