Collin: Phoenix Skulls (Skulls MC Romance Book 29) by Jessie Cooke & J. S. Cooke

Author:Jessie Cooke & J. S. Cooke [Cooke, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Redline Publishing
Published: 2019-10-12T18:30:00+00:00

Ciara did her best to be good the next few times Psycho Joe came into the room. She didn’t know if it was the same day, or a different one, most of the time. Time had lost all meaning and substance to her. She drank the water and ate whatever disgusting piece of crap he put into her mouth. When he wasn’t there she made herself concentrate on nothing but Noah. He was the only thing she had to hang onto in this world and if she wanted to stay alive long enough to kill Psycho Joe, she had to find a lifeline.

There was not a time that Ciara could remember in her life when Noah didn’t take care of her. She didn’t remember their first stint in foster care. Noah told her that she was three and he was almost twelve when they gave them back to “her”. She was clean and sober and working as a waitress then. Ciara had very vague memories of their mother until she was about six years old. She could remember coming home from school and catching her in bed with a man. Her mother pushed him out the door and told Ciara that she’d lost her job and the man was going to “help” her pay the bills. She made her promise not to tell Noah because he’d just be mad and mess it up and then they wouldn’t have a place to live or any food.

For several weeks Ciara lived with the knowledge that their mother wasn’t going to work when they went to school. Sometimes when she passed the building manager in the hallway he’d wink at her like they had a secret. Even at six years old it made her sick, but still she didn’t tell. She didn’t want Noah to be mad. It was a few months after that when she came home to find her mother passed out on the couch with a needle in her arm. Ciara panicked, thinking about how Noah would react. She cleaned her up as much as she could and took the needle out of her arm before he got home so he would think that she had just had a rough day at work and was taking a nap.

Finding her shooting up, or high, began to happen more routinely and the creepy building manager even started making passes at Ciara, as young as she was. She knew it wasn’t right and one day when her mother was too high to notice, the pervert tried to kiss her. She kicked him in the shin and ran. That was the day that she finally told her brother what was going on. He was about fourteen at that time and Ciara remembered him going absolutely ballistic on their mother. He unleashed fourteen years of anger and disgust in a rant that lasted for hours. The next morning when Ciara woke up their mother was gone and she and Noah both had a feeling that she wasn’t coming back.

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