Nineteen Seventy-Two by Sarah M. Cradit

Author:Sarah M. Cradit [Cradit, Sarah M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah M. Cradit

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The taxi seat was cold, which should have been soothing against the bruises on the back of her thighs. It wasn’t. The smell of the old, peeling plastic made her nauseated, and she nearly threw up. Only the absence of anything left to vomit stopped her.

The taxi driver checked three times with her if she didn’t want to stop at a hospital instead. She didn’t trust him, either, didn’t trust anyone anymore, not him, not her brother, not anyone. He was likely more concerned with being pulled into an investigation than anything else, and Evangeline had nothing left for him.

“No. I want to go home,” she said, and he reminded her that a taxi all the way to Vacherie was going to cost a lot more than she probably had.

Evangeline still had the last of the money she’d stolen from her mother in her knapsack. Amazingly, Serenity and her friends hadn’t thought to look there after… after…

“You don’t know what I have.” And you don’t know what I’ve lost.

The tears dried up by the time the I-10 turned into I-310. But the pain was not as forgiving. She sat sideways in the bench seat, her legs bowed outward. She said a silent prayer, though she didn’t believe in God, that she wouldn’t leave blood behind for the taxi driver to clean up. Not to do him any favors. The thought of evidence of that night might exist anywhere else horrified her.

He didn’t say another word the rest of the ride, though his eyes traveled to her bloodied, huddled form in the rearview. He wanted to ask. He didn’t.

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