Second Chance by Elleby Harper

Author:Elleby Harper [Harper, Elleby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-22T22:00:00+00:00

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Back behind a corner building Usher stood, his shoulders rubbing against the coarse concrete of the cinder blocks. Poetrie gabbled excitedly about the free snow cones for the kids in the neighborhood.

“I told Shawna to tell Kiante so he can come get one too.” She turned her troubled eyes to her brother. “Usher, go stand in line before they run out. You deserve a snow cone. They are so delicious.”

She dribbled the ice onto her tongue, offering him a lick, but he shook his head.

Anger roiled inside him. What a waste of money. So maybe a couple of hundred kids would be happy today, but what was the good of snow cones when they were starving? When they needed money to keep the electricity on and food on the table so they didn’t have to beg at the breakfast club or dumpster dive for scraps at the mall.

The longer he watched the two women, the stronger his anger grew till it was curled in his belly, filling him like a dozen snow cones. They weren’t from this neighborhood, that was for sure. Some of the kids thought they were po-po. He wasn’t convinced because he’d never seen police do anything like this before. Usually they hauled brothers, sons and fathers away to jail.

“Go on, Usher, don’t miss out!” Poetrie urged him again. “When I’ve finished mine I’m going to line up again and maybe get a second one!”

Her words jerked his attention away for a few seconds. When he switched his eyes back he froze. There was a man standing beside the women. Not much taller than the blond one, wearing a beanie and dark glasses just like he had at the mall. What the hell was One Eighty doing here?! Reflexively his hand closed around the SatNav in his pocket. Was the solid black box the thing that was luring One Eighty to the streets to look for him?

He grabbed his sister’s arm. “You’re not going back for seconds! We’ve got to get away from here.”

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