Toxic Secrets by Jill Patten

Author:Jill Patten [Patten, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: High School
Publisher: Jill Patten
Published: 2013-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 ~ Mr. Jaxon S. Vaughn

Thank the gods in heaven for sunshine and warm weather.

As soon as I stepped outside the airport, I inhaled the largest amount of smog my lungs could hold. If I couldn’t have a cigarette, this was the next best way to pollute the nodule producing organ. Popping an Altoid in my mouth, I once again resisted the nicotine urge. After two years of quitting, I still craved the shit. But, a promise was a promise, and Gramma Z would roll over in her grave if I went back on my word.

Beads of sweat formed on my forehead as soon as I shut my truck door. The temperature was hanging around the mid-eighties, meaning the valley would be ten degrees hotter. Idling through the LAX parking lot with my windows down, my arm relaxed along the frame. I relished in the Santa Ana winds blowing through the city. Giving the accelerator a tap, I blew loud exhaust from the mufflers. A couple of pretentious teenage girls wrinkled their noses in disgust before taking witness of the rebellious driver. I gave them my flirtatious crooked grin, nearly sending them melting like tar into the hot asphalt.

During my absence, I missed California more than I thought possible. Often, I toyed with the idea of moving away, starting over, leaving my pain in this bankrupted state of failure. Maybe one day I would. As I had grown older, I couldn’t fathom the concept of people packing up their entire family to take a chance at success. Most people wanted to move here to start their dreams. But for me, after graduation, I wanted to leave, to end my nightmares. My dreams lie in Heaven… or… confoundedly, North Carolina?

That damn girl had complicated my fuckin’ life, and it was my fault for allowing it.

Two years. It took two fucking years to take control of my life, to purify my body, to erase the demons that haunted my mind and soul.

Five days. The last five fucking days was all it took for me to spend with her before she awakened my eradicated heart.

Gramma Z had always taught me that, when we died, our bodies returned to the earth and our souls rejoiced for eternity in Heaven. Courtney was either deceiving me into believing there was no Heaven or manipulating me into believing in reincarnation.

I was convinced Courtney was Heather.

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