Echo Lake by Letitia Trent

Author:Letitia Trent
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Curbside Splendor Publishing
Published: 2014-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

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James chased the girl through the woods, toward the high school. Running toward that school made his stomach recoil and he fell back a step at the thought of it. The girl was young, and long-legged, and she’d outrun him if he didn’t go faster.

He had hated it at Heartshorne High School—fucking spinster teachers and bastards with their paddles they hit you with and offered you right after to write your name on, like it was really a prize to let them hit you. He’d written his name large across the width of the paddle and dug his name in deeper each time he was sent to the principal’s office, where he was offered a paddling or detention. He always chose the paddle instead of detention, and each time he had to bend over the desk and let that fat fuck Principal Knight hit him square in the ass he thought they will all pay. All he could remember of those punishments was the anger it created in him, the feeling that he had to go out and punch something, hard, until his knuckles split and the person or thing he was beating broke, too. But they didn’t pay—soon after he dropped out in eleventh grade, he was arrested and spent for his 4-year jail stint for burglary. James didn’t know what had happened to Knight after he’d left school. He probably had a cushy retirement to Keno. Probably thought that he had touched the lives of many children in a positive way and woke up proud of himself every morning for what he’d accomplished.

School and jail, the two places he’d hated the most and spent more time in than anywhere else so far in his adult life. They were both pretty much the same, and he wasn’t going back to either of them. But he needed the girl to be sure of that. He pushed harder and reached her, snagging her hair as it flew behind her, a hunk of it escaped from her stiff hairdo. She screamed and he pulled her close, covering her mouth with his hand. She didn’t bite, as he feared she would, and she seemed to go limp. She knew when she was caught, at least.

Shhh, he said, shut up. I’m not going to hurt you. Not if you do what I say and shut the fuck up.

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