Kate & Matthew

By Amber St. Clare

Independent, self-sufficient Kate doesn’t need a man in her life. She has been keeping busy the last few years rennovating the old farm house she occupies and makes money toiling in the garden all day. Still life for Kate seems to be missing a little something she can't quite put her finger on.

Kate find this smoething on her way home one night in the form of an abandoned car on the side of the road. Who wouldn’t want to help a handsome complete stranger out? Small town’s do that sort of thing, right?

Now two strangers with a secret to hide converge to find a new path for both of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amber St. Clare
• Release date: Aug 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301064113

Amber St. Clare

Amber grew up in Kansas City, MO. She is the youngest of 5 and by 14 years at that. She has been writing stories since she was a little girl including tales from preschool about sissors legs. Thru the urging of her long time friend she finally started self-publishings books. She would really like a literary agent so she can write full time, but hey, who wouldn't right?

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Kate & Matthew

By Amber St. Clare

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Copyright 2013 Amber St. Clare

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Kate & Matthew

By Amber St. Clare

1.

Children. Who decides which kids are good kids and which ones inhibit demon-like qualities? One kid even had pointed eyebrows. Did he pluck them to look like that? What kid plucks his eyebrows? Kate wondered these things to herself as she walked down the road home.

It was not too cool but it was raining hard as Kate walked that long country road towards home. Yet another terrible dinner, she had no idea why she went to Tyler & Judy’s on some Sunday nights. She knew why she did but she always left vowing never to return. They had insisted she wait on the storm that kicked up unpredictably to pass but she preferred the storm to staying. She was about to chastise herself more about not going back for dinner ever again when she saw a car in a shallow ditch off the road.

She had to walk by it if she wanted to go home. She looked at it as she got closer, wondering what happened as well as wondering why she had decided to not wear a raincoat but then again she remembered the storm wasn’t in the forecast. In the driver seat was a man with brown hair slumped over the seat. She peered in wondering if she should be getting this close. Was it a trap? A trap? Here in Meadow Springs where nothing had happened in a million years? Yet it seemed like something that the guy would cover on City Confidential or some History Channel show that started with it was a quiet community in the Midwest. Still Kate went with her gut feeling and her gut feeling wasn’t telling her she would be on tonight’s news.

She went over and knocked on the window. The man was still slumped over. She saw he was young, as young as she and thought this was probably not the best time to be looking for a date despite how long it had been. She would call for help on her cell phone except she didn’t have one; she didn’t have the need until now to use one. Her contact list on any given day would be empty. She tried the door and it was locked, probably locked as soon as he started the car and put it in gear.

The car was quiet and she wondered how long it had been here. Not too long she assumed since it wasn’t there on her way to dinner. She thought of feeling the hood but with the cool rain falling she would have nothing to gauge it by. She couldn’t tell if the man inside was dead or alive. She couldn’t quite figure out what to do in either case either. If he was in danger and she went home she would feel pretty bad about doing nothing. She had a phone at home for emergencies but worried it would be too long by the time she got back if he was indeed hurt. She wondered for a moment why this happened to her, she was completely unprepared for something like this and wondered if she had been a girl scout if finding a stranger unconscious in a car during a torrential rain storm was covered in the manual. She turned down the road towards home and found what she was looking for, a large rock. Well that was too large. She wanted to break the window, not decapitate the man. She found a more appropriate sized one. She picked it up and went back to the car.

Kate angled herself at the right angle to throw it in the back driver side window so no glass would hit the man, she hoped. Maybe this might wake him up too she thought as she stood in a near pitcher’s stance. ‘How the hell do these things happen to me’ she thought as she heaved it thru the back window.

While Kate understood trajectory, she had not mastered it. It did go past the man though it did not merely land in the seat. It went thru the driver’s side window and thru the passenger window and hit a cow in the rear.

Sorry! She shouted to the steer who only managed to moo at her with a moo like scowl and moved along.

Kate looked in at the man and shook his shoulder to wake him. He was breathing and moaned as she shook him. He did not appear to be hurt in any way but did not appear to be drunk either, at least she couldn't smell it on his breath. She shook him again but to no avail. He looked red and when she felt his forehead he was burning up. She thought about taking the long walk back to Tyler & Judy’s but realized she was probably closer to home than to their house anyway.

She decided to try the engine. She gently pushed him over to the passenger seat and got in the driver seat. She would just drive him over to Doc’s office and drop him off, feel good about her good deed and go home, somehow. Doc would give her a ride home she figured. Ah, now she had a plan. Kate liked to have a plan, even if she had just made it up.

She pulled in behind the driver seat as the storm went into full swing and began to pour even harder. She turned the engine over and with a few tries, it started. She put it in reverse and with some trouble, got back onto the road. She turned around and headed towards town. The winds picked up and the storm got more serious about falling from the sky, adding in a few good measures of lightning and thunder, perhaps just to show that it could.

Kate decided to go a little faster as the thunder rolls increased. If she crashed it wasn’t her car anyway. She could say it was