Fallen Revenge: a Paranormal Urban Fantasy (Askew Thrills) by Justin Brimhall

Author:Justin Brimhall [Brimhall, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RhetAskew Publishing
Published: 2021-08-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

KATE TOSSED AND TURNED for what felt like hours. She couldn’t sleep, no matter what she tried. Everyone else in the house was sound asleep, filling the house with an uncomfortable quiet. It was that silence that vexed her as her mind raced. Kate didn’t have a change of heart regarding her and Randy’s relationship, but over the last few days she began to see him in a different light.

Randy had left her alone as she wanted. After their last argument, Randy had fallen off the face of the Earth and hadn’t tried to reach out in any way. Kate was happy to hear that he received help for his issues, but a few weeks of good behavior was not enough to ease her mind about his previous track record. She watched his progressive changes over the years. His descent into darkness was as gradual as it was dangerous. Kate had hoped it wouldn’t clutch him the way it did and felt it was the best thing for all of them to get away.

At that moment, however, with her eyes wide open, staring out the window from her bed, she didn’t know what she wanted anymore. She missed him. Jane missed her father. The family was broken, and she was the one who felt it best that it remained that way. Kate knew the responsibility fell on her shoulders. She carried the guilt of her decisions all the way to Skollpan City. She moved past her guilt when she and Jane arrived at her parent’s house. Kate was able to bury her feelings for Randy until that day he showed up on the porch. Kate would have never imagined that Randy would follow them. Whatever the real reasons for his arrival, Kate couldn’t avoid her feelings any longer.

Awake and annoyed, Kate made the decision that she would try to reach out to Randy in some way. She didn’t know how or what she would say, but she felt the time was right to extend an olive branch. He had tried so many times before that Kate felt it was her duty to return that vulnerable gesture. More for Jane than herself because she knew how much their daughter loved and missed him. Kate rose up from her bed and got dressed.

She dressed in her running attire and squeezed into her sport leggings. She wrapped her upper body in a zip up hoodie that hung loose from her torso and hit mid-thigh. She pulled her hair back in a tight ponytail and flipped the hood over her head. That was Kate’s way of attempting to hide her gender from potential creeps stirring in the night. It was the middle of the night, and she didn’t want to call any more attention to herself than she already would be jogging around town at that time.

When Kate couldn’t sleep, she turned to reading, but when reading failed she turned to running. It was a great way to clear her mind. Exercising was an escape for Kate, and she utilized it in times like these.

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