Total pages in book: 100
Estimated words: 94513 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 473(@200wpm)___ 378(@250wpm)___ 315(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94513 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 473(@200wpm)___ 378(@250wpm)___ 315(@300wpm)
There was the briefest of moments when I’d thought, Why not let him do it?
No one would care. But it wasn’t just me anymore. I was responsible for another life. That was the only thing keeping me going. I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t just give up at this point if it wasn’t for the baby.
The next thing was, I had to decide the best way to handle the man hell-bent on murdering me if I didn’t tell him where to find Ares. I knew I was going to have to tell him, but I also wasn’t sure staying here was a good idea. Being alone would make it easier for him to just kill me anyway.
I reached up and flushed the toilet, then rested my forehead against the tiled wall beside me. If only Crosby would come back, I knew he’d help me, even if he didn’t want the baby. Believing the same guy who had sworn he loved me but would just ghost me like this was hard. I wasn’t going to demand anything from him, but if I just had someone who cared, I wouldn’t be so alone.
Five
Bane
“What were you thinking, Crosby?” I muttered as I watched the girl carry out two boxes and set them on the front porch, then bring out two black garbage sacks and a duffel bag.
She might be a looker, but she was also backwoods trash and had no doubt been after my brother’s money. Whatever kinky-sex shit she’d done to get him so obsessed with her cunt, it had worked. Now, he was dead because of it. I had no proof it was her brother, but there was no other reason for what had happened.
Seeing that run-down house she lived in, I couldn’t figure out why her brother would want to kill Crosby. Wouldn’t they have seen Crosby as a gold mine? Why would he want to end that? Maybe he was her stepbrother, and this was some sick jealousy thing. If they weren’t blood-related and he lived in a house with a sister who looked like her and was a freak in bed, then he was probably as fucked up in the head over her as Crosby must have been.
It was real convenient the brother had left town right after Crosby was shot. Seemed like he had something to run and hide from. Not only that, the others were now gone. The whole fucking family looked guilty to me. I’d kill them all.
Acid burned my stomach as hatred pumped through my veins.
I wouldn’t kill them all. The little kids, I couldn’t off them, but they were gonna be motherfucking orphans if the parents were involved. Why the hell the girl was still here, alone, made no sense though. I’d think they would have taken her and left someone else behind to clean up the house before leaving. Perhaps they thought if someone came looking for them, her appeal would be enough to keep her alive.
Sorry, folks. I don’t care about her or her cunt.
I’d had a lot of hot pussy, unlike my brother, who had known nothing but Saylor.
The girl came walking around the side of the house, this time with a bike. What the hell was she doing with a bike? I watched her go out to the road, then get on it and begin to pedal in the opposite direction. She was headed toward town. I waited until she was out of sight before slowly following her. If she was going to work, she was in for a rude awakening. She no longer had a job.
Bitch was about to find out they’d fucked with the wrong family.
Six
Halo
I parked my bike behind the Urban Bistro food truck. I’d arrived two hours early because I needed to talk to Alf and Tember about my living situation and see if I could possibly get someone in to replace me today. I was almost to the door of the truck when Tember stepped out. He looked at me, and the regret that crossed his expression was concerning He was always the chipper, upbeat one. Alf was the moody one. Tember always said they had a grumpy-sunshine romance.
“Hey, Tember,” I began. “I know I’m early, but I needed to talk to y’all.”
Alf’s body filled the doorway behind him. “Halo,” he said with a similar expression.
What was wrong with them? Had something happened? I really hoped they didn’t need me today.
“Uh, yeah, good morning,” I replied.
Tember looked back at him, and they both seemed to be upset.
Then, Alf cleared his throat and turned his eyes back to me. “Halo, I’m sorry, but we have to let you go.”
I stood there, shifting my eyes from one to the other. Was this a joke? They didn’t normally kid like this, but they were known to joke around with the employees. This was bad timing if it was.