The Renegades by Ashley Shepard

Author:Ashley Shepard [Shepard, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-19T05:00:00+00:00

I welcome the pain in my ankles. The pain that's telling me I'm running fast, too hard. I never stop. I let it hurt until I'm worried my bones will fracture and I won't be able to walk again. I run, my breath is barely able to squeeze itself in and out of my body. Each limb feels like it weighs a ton, dragging me down, trying to prevent me from going any further, but I don't let it get to me. I won't let it consume me.

I should have just left without telling them―I push the thought back. Of course, I could have never left Blake with that big of a mountain on him, but I wish that I could indulge in that lie―at least for the moment.

Only on rare occasions have I seen my father get as mad as he was tonight. He barely has furry in his bones. I know he's worried for me―deathly worried. But, it's not just me he's worried about. He's concerned about Annie and Blake. He doesn't know where to place those emotions, so he takes it out on anyone within an arm’s length.

His desire to make me see reason couldn't penetrate through my impregnable mind, he exploded. He let loose until he couldn't stop himself any longer. All I can see is his face, despondent. I haven't been the easiest child, but he couldn't have foreseen this.

I hate Prism. I hate Retter with a passion as if it's the only job I've been set out to do. Now, I tell him that I'm going to the very place I despise to live with a Court family that could be fooling me or turn me in at any given time. I know how ridiculous it must look to them. I know that I would be reacting the same way, it's not like I can blame them. I would have shackled anyone who told me that they planned on doing such a stupid thing.

And Annie.

Annie's tear-soaked face was looking up at me, asking me why I was doing this to her. Like I planned all along at some point to leave her behind, possibly never coming back. Hadn't she lost enough already? Three people who were her family died, a fourth bailed out. Now I'm telling her that I'm becoming Trent. Walking out of her life as he did.

It's not the same. I know it's not the same. There are huge differences. He left because he didn't want to face her. Scared to look his sister in the eyes again. Knowing that he was the cause for his family's demise, and that she could have easily been in there with them and lost her life. He turned his back, not able to tell her himself. He left that for us to do. No, see, that's where things are different. I told her to her face, and I'm not bailing out on her because things are rough. I'm heading straight into a lion's den for her, for them, for my town, for my people.

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