Blue Skies, Season 2, Episode 8 (Rising Storm) by Dee Davis

Author:Dee Davis [Davis, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town, Rising Storm, Dee Davis, Romance, drama, Texas
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2016-09-26T21:00:00+00:00

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Dakota sat huddled beneath the giant live oak hanging out over the placid water of the lake. The quiet inlet had been a favorite place since she’d been old enough to ride a bike, the grassy knoll providing escape from the things that hurt her.

Hugging her knees, she struggled to breathe, the tears still coming fast and hard. She hardly remembered leaving her house and driving here, her head stuck on an endless visual loop of her father beating her mother, shooting Marcus—aiming the gun at her.

She rubbed a hand against her bruised cheek, trying to make sense of it all. She’d always believed her father loved her. That he accepted her for who she was. But he’d called her a tramp. Implied worse. And the disgust in his eyes. She shuddered and wiped at her tears, as if somehow she would erase the memory as well.

She’d been so stupid. So blind. She’d followed her father like some kind of puppy. Waiting for his praise, begging for his approval. And all the time he’d been playing her. Making her believe in him. Making her hate her mother. Shame washed through her—hot and heavy. When Hector had come at her, her mother had stepped between them. Fearlessly trying to protect Dakota.

That was love. Not the syrupy crap her father served up. She’d been so needy and desperate she’d believed him. Believed in him. Just like she’d believed in the senator. But they’d both used her. Used her desire to be loved and taken what they wanted. God, what had she done? Marcus had tried to tell her. Mallory had tried to tell her. Even Patrick had tried. And she hadn’t listened. She hadn’t wanted to see the truth. She’d been too locked in her own little world to see what was happening right in front of her nose.

Her father had been abusing her mother. And her mother had taken it to protect her children. To protect Dakota. To secure her stupid fantasy world. She’d never meant anything to anyone that she’d believed in. And the people who had loved her, she’d shoved away with scorn.

What the hell was she supposed to do now?

She stared out at the still waters of the lake. It was beautiful, the air cooling as evening set in, the colors of the sky reflected in the ripples below. Somewhere in the distance she could hear the harsh cry of a blue jay as the wind whispered through the leaves of the trees.

She rested her chin on her knees and fought to calm her racing heart. There’d been blood everywhere. On the walls and the floor. On Marcus and her mother and her father. Hector had looked so surprised, an angry hatred twisting his face into a caricature, something from a book or a movie. It was as if the father she’d believed in had morphed into another man.

But deep in her heart she knew that in truth, for the first time she’d seen the real Hector Alvarez.

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