A Heart Revealed
“She opened her eyes to see smoke curling in the air, and a smug smile eased across her lips. Take that, Mitch Dennehy, she thought with a lift of her chin.“Hey!” Gabe said with a swipe of her face. “Blow it out, not spray it out.”Collin chuckled and tickled Gabe’s neck, causing the ten-year-old to scrunch her shoulders with a giggle. “Come on, Gabe, plain old wind wouldn’t have done it on that cake, and you know it. It had so many candles blazing I thought I was going to have heatstroke.”“Yeah,... you’re right—look at me!” She held out a skinny arm marred with scrapes and smudges from arm wrestling with Henry in the dirt. “Pert near fried the hair clean off!”Charity peered, first at Collin and then at Gabe, her smile as thin as her gaze. “You two are a regular Laurel and Hardy, you know that?” She aimed a smirk in Collin’s direction. “But don’t give up your day job, Ollie. And you,” she said with a tweak of Gabe’s hair, “aren’t you supposed to be in charge of cupcakes in the kitchen?MoreLess
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