Renee 3 by Brandie Davis

Author:Brandie Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2020-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Renee timed it. Every five minutes, the ocean crept to shore and wet the sand. Her steps were large, but every time her giant steps landed in the sand, she was met with the waves saturating the gravel. The cold water relieved her hot skin. “I have an older sister,” Renee whispered. She didn’t look Dane’s way, only farther out into the beach. She didn’t know what sat at the end. She knew only that it was ongoing.

“A letter was left behind when we went back,” Dane admitted.

Renee nodded. She tried to digest everything Dane had told her about the murders, the letter, and Julian.

“I can find her,” Dane suggested. She tried reading Renee’s thoughts and imagining how she felt when visualizing meeting another member of her family she knew nothing about. A member she could possibly look up to and pray was normal.

In two minutes, the waves would cover Renee’s feet, so she waited for the salt water, hoping its coolness would help center her thoughts. Quicker than she thought, the cold liquid slammed against her feet.

“She’s not my sister. She’s Carmen’s. There is not enough room for both of us in her life. This is bigger than a sibling rivalry. We want each other’s heads. Given the choice, if you were this new sister, who would you choose?” Renee’s head snapped in the direction of Dane.

Dane thought it over, and Reagan came into view, then a stranger whose facial traits held their own, and her decision was made. “But what if she’s different, an outcast like yourself?”

“What if she’s one of them? A self-absorbed savage?” Renee challenged. After a moment of silence, a question clicked inside Renee’s mind. “Why do you care? Why are you trying to form a relationship with Carmen’s sister and me?”

“Because I worry for you,” Dane admitted. “Because I know that I will not be here forever, and when I’m gone, you will have no one. It will comfort me to know you have at least one person.”

“I have Julian,” Renee answered. The comment rushed out of her mouth and stiffened her legs. Renee didn’t intentionally develop the sentence in her mind. It was created in her subconscious and flew out of her mouth.

Dane slowed her pace and gave Renee enough room to gather herself and speak her truth.

After taking a deep breath, Renee let it all out. “I just can’t forget, can’t get the imagery of them together out of my head. But every time I see him, for the first few seconds, I forget it all and instruct my feet to race into his arms. But every time the first step is taken, reality hits me and I remember. I picture her with him and smell her on him, and that’s when I lose it, lose everything we have ever had.” Tears slid down Renee’s cheeks, the memory of love freshly engraved in her heart and soul. “I miss him, but at the same time, I need him away. I just don’t know for how long.

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