Out of the Frying Pan, Straight into the Fire - Softcover

Clinger, Tina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475909934 ISBN 13: 9781475909937

Verlag: iUniverse, 2012

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Kya Martinley has been burned before, and she swears it's never going to happen again. But things are looking up for this strong woman with big dreams. She's in a great relationship-the best of her life, in fact-with Bruce, a prominent lawyer in Ponde, Louisiana. A former professional ball player, Bruce knows a thing or two about being a player, and that's just fine with Kya. After he romances her, he heads right home to another. It's the best of both worlds. Kya and her best friends-Chandenise, Airis, and Bailey-met in high school, where they formed an unusual club: BACK-or "Bountiful Ass Chicks Just Kicking It". The four friends created the club in order to turn the tables on all the shifty, lying, cheating men in their lives. Now the ladies do the using, and they get their revenge. Their friendship has never been stronger. But for someone who should know better, Kya lets herself get drawn in a little too close to the fire-literally and figuratively. With the help of her friends, she'll find a way to enjoy the heat all summer long-that is, until the fateful day a barbecue sends her running!

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Out of the Frying Pan, Straight into the Fire

By Tina Clinger

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2012 Tina Clinger
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ISBN: 978-1-4759-0993-7

Contents

The Beginning........................................1Bailey Dabbles.......................................6Airis Uprising.......................................11Chandenise, one less secret!.........................16Kya's Aftermath......................................20They got it started..................................25A Rat revealed among them............................34Truth of Consequences................................38Prologue to a new Beginning..........................41The Try Out..........................................48Trouble Rears Its Head...............................56Round two with Jacob and Laverna.....................61The Plan of a Lottery................................67The Issue of Tissue..................................72Another Way of Seeing the Easy.......................76The Move.............................................80Looks Promising......................................87Nykole the Interrupter...............................93Greed her Undoing....................................98Mystery Solved.......................................105The Letters and Vagabond.............................110Duped the Party's Over...............................119

Chapter One

The Beginning

Oh boy, it's the first warm Saturday here in Ponde, Louisiana and instead of drinking a nice cold watermelon wine cooler and sitting back enjoying a piece of chicken that she saw barbecuing on the grill as she passed through the backyard into the house, Kya found herself running for cover as shots ranged out. Just as she crouched in corner she was wishing she hadn't sat her purse down, with her cell phone, on the patio table. As she peeked over the sofa to see who and where the gunshots were coming from she spotted Bruce. He seemed to be reloading his gun and mumbling something to himself as he stomped around throwing things and just plain wreaking havoc on what was once a beautiful home.

Guess your wonder whose Bruce and why Kya is hiding from him? Bruce is Kya's home girl Chandenise husband. She invited Kya to her new two story, five bedroom, four bathroom home for a barbeque but judging from the knocked over broken furniture and bullet holes in the walls it appears Kya walked into a war. Kya wondered where her best friend was as she surveyed the room once more from her temporary safe haven, she spotted Chandenise on the floor. She was just lying there motionless with blood gushing from her neck. "Oh my God Chandenise" Kya gasped in disbelief as she slid from one end of the sofa to the other to get a closer look at her friend's body. Since Bruce had taken his tirade to one of the other rooms in the house, Kya was able to crawl over to Chandenise body and through her tears she could see that her friend throat was cut from ear to ear.

Kya crouched to the patio and managed to get her cell phone from her purse before Bruce made his way back into the living-room. Dialing 911 and shaking like a leaf she whispery relayed the scene to the 911 operator as she took refuge behind the plush sectional sofa again. She had no idea what happen to drive this man whom every time she saw him he was calm, cool and collected to behave in such a disastrous way. Bruce had a deranged look on his face as he walked pass the sofa and headed toward the back yard and Kya made a mad dash for the stairs to check for other injured bodies. She was hoping that Chandenise's mom and daughter wasn't home and had become victims too.

As Kya quickly and quietly on shaky legs searched through the bedrooms she could hear gunshots in the distance letting her know Bruce hadn't made it back to the house yet. So she made her way back down the stairs to the kitchen and that's when she spotted a guy crawling out of the rose colored bottom cabinets. She grabbed the nearby broom and began to beat the guy upside the head, while screaming I got him! I got him! As the guy and Kya tussled about he said "Ms. Martinley I didn't do it, it was Bruce! It was Bruce"! As Kya took in his words she noticed the guy was sporting a bullet wound to the thigh.

The unknown man told Kya that Bruce came home and went insane when he saw the two of them talking. He said Bruce shouted "I knew it you slutty bitch, it's true you can't turn a whore into a housewife". Mrs. England tried to explain to him that nothing was going on and uttered that even if there were she could do whatever she wanted because they were legally separated. Mrs. England also told him to leave and ushered him toward the front door when Bruce suddenly stopped turned slit her throat, dropped the knife, pulled out his gun and that's when I took off running; getting hit in the leg.

With the wailing of police siren in the air, Bruce made it back into the house, followed the commotion to the kitchen and aimed his gun straight in the direction of the stranger. Once he spotted Kya he just started screaming "I warned her Kya, she made me do it. I told her once we got married and she cheat on me I was going to kill her! Now I must kill him too!" Bruce aimed the gun at the stranger and pulled the trigger as the guy went down Kya tried to catch him but manage to fall hitting her head on the rose and mauve marble countertop instead. As she laid there in her somewhat out of body state Kya began to recall the day they formed the now defunct teenage club B*A*C*K and how each of the members lives had unfolded over the years.

Chandenise and I have been friends since the first day at Ponde Senior High. Because we hung in different circles I knew her vaguely from around middle school and because my family had moved two blocks down and three blocks over (right next to the Tyler home) from our previous home my school district had changed. So going to Bell High home of the Wolves was out for me. Mom dropped me off at the front entrance and I remembered staring at this big yellow otter holding a blue club painted on the front door. How good can their sports teams be with a mascot called, Oscar the Otter.

Walking and fixated on the golden mammal painted on the walls I bumped into Chandenise. She introduced herself as Chandenise Tyler the finest women on the face of the earth with a butt any man would love to touch. I said my name was Kya Martinley and I do believe were neighbors. Chandenise simply say yes we are then whispered stick with me and I can make these years wonderfully fun for you.

Now an intro like that means this girl was high on herself and since Kya was intent on making this new school a good change for her, a new friend yet familiar face would be nice. As the bell rang Chandenise suggested for Kya meet her at the tree to the right of the cafeteria exit for lunch turned and sashayed up the stairs. Kya proceed down the wide hallway, where all of the opened doors looked like mouths open with its tongue hanging out to the office to get her schedule, then off to homeroom.

As luck would have it, Chandenise and Kya were in the same fourth period science class and as soon as she saw her she waved her multicolored nails for Kya to come over. Chandenise was sitting in the second row, second seat and to the left of her was a red skin, red head sister and they were chatting away about some boy named Terrion that apparently was the hottest thing since the cell phone. Kya later learned that the sister name was Airis and she and Chandenise were cousins. They sat through class passing notes with no one paying any attention to what Mrs. Branks, their...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1475909934
• ISBN 13: 9781475909937
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland