Seeking Redemption by Kylie Hillman

Author:Kylie Hillman [Hillman, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Suspense, Family, organised crime, Romance, motorcycle club, dark
Publisher: Kylie Hillman
Published: 2016-03-20T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

LACEY

Present Day

“STOP! Connor. Stop.”

My screaming brings the nurses running into my darkened room. I struggle to sit up but I can’t. They’ve put me in restraints while I’ve been out of it. The overhead lights flicker on and blind me. I screw my eyes shut, jerking away from the cool hand that touches my forehead and begins stroking. One of the nurses starts fussing with the monitors that are attached to me while another checks the tightness of the restraints.

“Leave me alone.” I demand. My voice is croaky from lack of use and my dry mouth.

“Honey, please don’t hate us.” My mother sounds broken. “We didn’t know. You didn’t tell us. When we saw the X-rays, we automatically thought it was Benji. He was the one who you were using drugs with so we blamed everything on him.”

My chest tightens and I find it hard to pull in a full breath when she says his name and the memory of his spirit’s visit to this room when I lost it over Connor returns to me. Tears spill down my cheeks when I remember that he’s dead and it’s all my fault. I open my eyes and look at my mother. She’s crying as well, and my dad who’s hovering just behind her, doesn’t look far from tears himself.

“It doesn’t matter anymore, does it.” I sniff and attempt to wipe my face on my pillow since I can’t use my hands. “He’s gone and it’s all my fault. I killed him.”

“What?” Dad speaks up, confusion in his voice. He turns to the nurses. “Can you untie her now. She’s calm. We need to talk.”

The nurses exchange a look before nodding. I lay there impassively, refusing to meet their eyes or help them when they need to move my limbs to undo the straps. I don’t want to be here and I don’t care who knows.

Once I’m free, they make their way from the room and leave us to it. The atmosphere is suffocating, my parent’s faces etched with worry lines that weren’t there earlier today. I feel wretched, yet I’m aware that this is only the beginning.

“Lacey, why do you think you killed Benji?”

There’s no possible way for me to meet my parent’s worried eyes when I answer this question. “Because I did. I’m the one who injected the drugs. He was hopeless at hitting his vein so I always did it.”

I’m barely audible, my words making their way into reality with obvious reluctance. I guess, I should get used to admitting my culpability since my parents are first on a long list of people I need to tell the truth. A lump forms in my throat when I realize that I’ll need to face Maddi and her brothers soon.

“My Lord.” Mom gasps and places her hand on her heart. “What is wrong with you? I can’t—”

“Janet,” Dad cautions her, cutting off her scolding. “That’s the least of our problems at the moment.”

He moves closer to me. Looking at me with a hardening expression, his tone is grim when he speaks, “Benji’s not dead.

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