Summer Mahogany (1978)
“She was shivering again and threw off the wet blanket to slip beneath the covers of her bed.
Shutting her eyes tightly, she tried to block out the whole miserable scene, but she couldn't shut her ears to the voices below. More slow, hot tears squeezed through her wet lashes.
"I could do with a shot of whiskey," her grandfather said. "You?" For a while there was only the drumming rain on the roof. Glasses clinked as they were set on the kitchen table, followed by the thud of a bottle, the one ke...pt for "medicinal purposes" on the top shelf of the cupboard.
"I knew she was taken with you. I probably should have forbidden her to see you, but I was afraid of sweetenin' the excitement." There was a thread of weariness in her grandfather's sigh that made Gina feel all the more wretched, but there was no sign of it when he added sharply, "You knew she was only sixteen, didn't you?" Rhyder swore softly. "She told me she was seventeen." "Not until August," Nate Gaynes harrumphed. "But you believed her?" "Your granddaughter is sixteen going on twenty," he declared grimly.MoreLess
Shutting her eyes tightly, she tried to block out the whole miserable scene, but she couldn't shut her ears to the voices below. More slow, hot tears squeezed through her wet lashes.
"I could do with a shot of whiskey," her grandfather said. "You?" For a while there was only the drumming rain on the roof. Glasses clinked as they were set on the kitchen table, followed by the thud of a bottle, the one ke...pt for "medicinal purposes" on the top shelf of the cupboard.
"I knew she was taken with you. I probably should have forbidden her to see you, but I was afraid of sweetenin' the excitement." There was a thread of weariness in her grandfather's sigh that made Gina feel all the more wretched, but there was no sign of it when he added sharply, "You knew she was only sixteen, didn't you?" Rhyder swore softly. "She told me she was seventeen." "Not until August," Nate Gaynes harrumphed. "But you believed her?" "Your granddaughter is sixteen going on twenty," he declared grimly.MoreLess
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