Angeles Betrayal by Michael Pierce

Author:Michael Pierce [Pierce, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ParousiaSix Press
Published: 2018-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

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Fiona

I was subconsciously pulled homeward. I’d wanted to return to my condo when I’d jumped into my Land Rover and raced out of the Fangloria parking lot—to go and hide in a place no one could find me—but the little girl inside of me led me home, where no matter what happened between Mom and me, it would always be.

Once I got there, I ran inside, afraid Mom had been following me and was close on my heels. I rushed straight into the bathroom and locked the door. At that point, my bladder was protesting as much as my heart. I didn’t have the luxury of my own en suite here. When I was done, I listened through the door for any sounds in the apartment, then raced from the bathroom to my bedroom, but not before grabbing the Oreos on the way.

Then I locked the bedroom door and dragged my desk over to barricade it from opening. I didn’t know what Mom was capable of anymore. Maybe she could pick locks? I wasn’t taking any chances of her breaking her way in here.

It felt strange that after everything, this was the one place I still truly felt safe—as if some force nobody could penetrate was shielding my room whenever I was holed up inside.

I dropped my purse and shoulder holster onto the floor beside the bed, threw back the covers, and crawled onto the mattress. My heart was still beating a mile a minute and it was impossible to take in a full breath, but as I covered my shaking body with the same comforter I’d had since junior high, I felt no one could touch me. I hugged the bag of Oreos like it was a stuffed animal until I calmed enough to open it and split a cookie.

“What’s wrong, Fee?” a soft voice asked as I crunched on the bittersweet treat.

“The whole world is collapsing around me, Becks,” I said. “I don’t know what to do anymore. I mean… I know what I have to do, but don’t know if I can live with myself if I go through with it. And I certainly can’t not go through with it. I—I’m in so much trouble.”

“I don’t understand,” she said, her voice as sweet and calming as ever. She was the reason I couldn’t go anywhere else when things got so bad—the reason I could never truly leave.

“Becks, Mom’s gotten herself involved with some very dangerous people,” I said. “And now she’s gotten me involved too. And I don’t see a way out of it.”

“No, Mom wouldn’t do that.”

“I know she always said she was looking out for our best interests, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I don’t even know who she is anymore. It’s like she’s been living this double life the whole time.” And when I stopped to think about what I’d just said, I heard the hypocrisy in my own statement, with the double life I’d been leading for the past six months.

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