The Hawks_A Novel by SD Hendrickson

Author:SD Hendrickson [Hendrickson, SD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novel
Publisher: SD Hendrickson
Published: 2018-07-25T18:30:00+00:00

The first glow of sunrise came through the trees outside the Hawthorn estate. I had my windows rolled down since the protesters were usually gone for the night. But even at this hour, three men were already camped out by the curb. Damn it. Why were they already here? And then I couldn’t help myself.

“Don’t you have anything better to do?” I yelled out the window. “Leave us the hell alone.”

Us? The word echoed out into the shadows beneath the streetlights. There was no us. I wasn’t one of them. But this invasion into their lives had become a thorn in my own side. And at this moment, I literally didn’t have an ounce left in me to tolerate the insanity of these protestors.

As I remained parked in front of the gate, the tallest of the men came closer to my car. He wore a plaid shirt, untucked from a pair of faded jeans. On a normal day, the man would not be any different than a person I passed in the grocery store. But out here in the street, his brown eyes appeared menacing as he got closer to my window.

“Yeah, I got better things to do. But I can’t do them because the Hawthorns are fuckin’ up my land.” His breath reeked of stale coffee.

“So being here unfucks your land,” I quipped.

“You don’t know shit, girl.” The guy rubbed a thumb over the speckled gray-and-black scruff on his chin as he sneered at me. “You’re just a rich bitch like the rest of the little puppets running around here.”

“Do I really look like some rich bitch to you?”

The guy leaned an elbow on the edge of my window. I shivered a little, seeing the way his eyes roamed over my body. He made me feel cheap. Dirty. This stupid dress needed to go in the trash.

His tongue wetted his bottom lip. “I bet you have no problem putting their blood money into your bank account. And I doubt you have no problem sleeping in that house. Makes you no different than the Hawthorns. Their sins are your sins.”

I gave him an even stare, holding my ground. I wasn’t about to apologize for taking the paycheck I earned, working my ass off every day for that family.

“Do you know how much money they give to charity? How much money the family gives to the hospital? And the park over there by the river? They built that damn park for the city. Kids are able to play every day because of the Hawthorns. They even host fundraisers. They make other people give back to the community.”

“Atonement doesn’t erase a crime, girl.” He laughed. “Only punishment of the criminal.”

I opened my mouth to say something back and then closed it. I was wasting my breath and time and every bit of my remaining energy. There was no rationale when arguing with a crazy person. I wasn’t going to change the mind of someone who chose to stand out in the street in the middle of the night.

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