Concealed (Victoria Michaels) by Victoria Michaels

Author:Victoria Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Mystery, fiction
Publisher: Crazy-Bee Press LLC
Published: 2013-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

AFTER TWO SLEEPLESS NIGHTS and two longer days of avoiding Wade and his phone calls, Sydney had made up her mind. They needed to leave. It had nothing to do with Wade and Tara, she kept telling herself. That was ancient history. But every day at work she saw the faces of people who could be hurt if he came to town to exact his revenge on her and she couldn’t stand to see a single one of them harmed because of her. For their safety and Faith’s she decided it was time to leave Elton.

She’d been quietly packing things up, telling Faith she was cleaning the house for her upcoming birthday party. A party she wouldn’t ever attend because they’d be long gone. But Sydney pushed the thought of her daughter’s impending heartbreak out of her mind and focused on sorting things into the suitcases and getting rid of anything that could leave behind any information about them.

She had stared at a map online late at night, trying to decide where to hide this time. Big city or small? East Coast or West Coast? If it wasn’t so late in the fall she might have considered a trip up to Alaska, but then she didn’t think it wise to test fake passports at the borders. She’d settled on Arizona, hoping the warmth and scenery would make it up to Faith that she wouldn’t get to celebrate her sixth birthday with her friends in Elton.

Everything was packed and ready to go. Sydney had to wait another day to get her last paycheck from Pete and Cara, then they’d be off. The night before they were set to leave, Faith had woken up with a high fever. The poor thing was miserable with a sore throat and cried all night. She couldn’t possibly steal her from her sick bed and start off on an eighteen hour trek across country without a doctor around if she needed it.

So instead, Sydney stayed home, locked the doors, and nursed her daughter back to health. It was a good thing she had stayed because it ended up being strep throat. Had she left that night, God knows how sick Faith could have gotten over the course of their trip. Countless popsicles, bowls of Jell-O, and glasses of ginger ale later, she began to perk up.

When she walked out the door to work this morning, Sydney was already exhausted, but Faith was ecstatic because it was her first day back to school and she had missed her friends desperately.

Friends Sydney was planning on ripping her away from tonight, now that she was better.

It was going to do more than tear out Faith’s heart to leave; Sydney wasn’t going to make it out unscathed, either. But they had to go. There were more phone calls with no one on the other line. Once she heard a man’s deep chuckle before the line went dead. Now, when a phone rang, Sydney jumped a mile and approached it like it was a living thing out to do her harm.

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