Witch Way to Turn by Karen Y. Bynum Read Free Book Online

closed–echoing through the little duplex farm. Crickets chirped as if they’d just figured out how to do it and had to compete to see who’d win first place in loud.
    The Gossip Girl credits rolled as she walked in the front door. Jenny must’ve finagled her way into watching her favorite show. She was already too old for her age.
    Damn, you’re one to talk, Breena reprimanded herself.
    Jenny’s legs were plopped onto Myles’s lap. She’d passed out. Her silky brown hair lay messily around her shoulders. A bead of sweat formed at her hairline and she had a soft little smile on her lips. Breena’s heart clenched. Jenny was her sister in every way that counted. Breena didn’t want to take her back to Norma’s tomorrow. Matter-of-fact, she downright dreaded it.
    Myles snapped around to watch her shut and lock the door.
    “Jenny missed you.” His gaze followed her like a shadow.
    “Thanks for watching her.”
    “You’re welcome.” He tossed a pillow off the couch, making room for Breena to sit next to him.
    She sat on the coffee table next to empty Japanese food containers instead. “What’d y’all do?”
    “We ate and watched a really inappropriate show for a girl her age.”
    Breena laughed. “Okay, Grandpa.”
    “Watch it, young lady.” He grinned. “Back in my day, things were a lot different.”
    “Um, hello, we’re not livin’ in the 1800s.”
    “Not anymore.” He stretched his arms out along the top of the couch, muscles flexing. For a second, Breena pictured herself curled up in his lap, his arms around her, and Jenny by their side. As fast as it popped into her mind, it popped out. After all, Myles wasn’t offering. Besides, there were bigger fish to fry, so one thing at a time. She needed to figure out a way of getting Jenny away from Norma. Priority number one.
    “Bree?”
    “Huh?” Her eyes flew open at the sound of her name. She hadn’t realized she’d closed them.
    “How’d class go?”
    “Oh, uh, right. Good,” she stammered.
    He arched his eyebrows and narrowed his gaze. “You sure?”
    “Yeah. No, everything’s fine. Just tired. I didn’t think it’d ever end.”
    They sat in silence for a few minutes with the low hum of the TV on mute in the background.
    Myles was everything she wanted, but he couldn’t or wouldn’t make a move. She didn’t understand it. Not that having a boyfriend would make her life any easier, but it sure would be nice to feel safe and protected. Desired.
    She thought about tonight and her nameless pseudo-hero. It was just her luck that when a total hottie saved her life he turned out to be a complete nutjob. She shook the sight of his pale-green eyes out of her head. As if she needed more problems.
    Jenny shifted, pulling Breena back into the present. Myles’s gaze seemed to try to read hers, but for the moment, the book was closed.
    Jenny’s head lolled back over the armrest and she woke up. “Sis, you’re home.”
    Perfect timing.
    “Sure am. How’d you talk Myles into watching Gossip ?”
    “Ah, man. Is it off?”
    “Yeah.”
    “You fell asleep right after it came on, silly.” Myles flicked her big toe.
    “Hey.” Jenny kicked his hand.
    “Okay, you two. Jenny needs to go to bed.”
    “I changed the sheets and there’s an extra pillow in the closet if you need one.” Myles nodded toward the door in the hallway.
    “We’ll sleep on the couch.”
    “No, you’ll sleep in my bed .”
    Jenny snickered.
    It wasn’t necessarily Myles’s words causing Breena’s pulse to race and her libido to voice its opinion, but the way he’d said them. She wanted to be in his bed...next to him...twirling those curls, touching him. Didn’t he want it too?
    “Bree?”
    “Uh, if you insist.” She stood, ready for the day to be over.
    He peered up at her through thick dark lashes. “I do.”
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    Breena woke to light streaming through the mini-blinds and the smell of greasy goodness hanging in the air. She snuggled deeper into the