“All I’m saying,” Twila was backing away from her sister’s murderous glare as she scampered backwards on the sofa and ducking behind their mother, “is we’ve never met this guy and hear me out,” she held a throw pillow in front of her face, “wouldn’t it be nice, just for once to have a man around you so you don’t have to deal with all the pitying looks you hate so much from everyone. Take him into town and let him eat the maple meatloaf at the diner and suddenly you don’t look like the loser who never got over Kash banging her cousin.”
“Loser? Everyone thinks I’m a loser?” Horror filled her chest as she gripped it and stared at her sister while her mother smacked her leg furiously.
“No!” Twila denied it. “I’m literally quoting you from when you were here in July! Those were your exact wor
