True Love's Fire: A Red Hot Valentine Story (Hell Yeah!) - Plot & Excerpts
My heart cries How can I go on? My heart cries There’s nowhere to call home My heart cries Until I met you Lia learns a hard lesson: “Mama, what does white trash mean?” Lia soothed down her skirt over her skinny legs. The raw place on her knee from where she’d slid on the gravel stung like heck. “Reggie called me no-count white trash, and he pushed me down.” Analia Houston wanted to cry. Her little girl was so innocent, so tender. She wouldn’t hurt a fly. At eleven years old, she shouldn’t have to defend herself against prejudice and small town gossip. “Don’t pay any attention to him, baby. He’s just jealous because you can sing so pretty.” “I don’t think so.” Lia swiped a strand of her dark hair from her cheek. “Reggie says we’re poor ‘cause I don’t have a daddy. He says you and Grandma are sluts, and I’m gonna be one when I grow up.” She watched her mother’s face fall. “Don’t cry, Mama.
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