Alive by Victoria Johns

Author:Victoria Johns [Johns, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1976439930
Published: 2017-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

Rebecca

I’d assumed this was going to be a group trip to Hawkstown, but I was wrong. Cara wanted to come but Ross was having none of it. His argument wasn’t unreasonable either—they were a family, they had kids to look after and above all else, he was trying to keep them all safe. Ross wanted to make sure that her new life did not pop up on anyone’s radar and seemingly, following me into the unknown flew in the face of that.

I thought about this as we hit the highway. It looked like she was a prisoner in Rockton. She didn’t leave out of fear, yet it must have seemed like freedom compared to what she’d lived through before. Being forced to marry and live a life designed by someone else was no one’s idea of a future. Raising a family in that environment would have been hell. She would have been expected to pop out kids and breed the next generation of the criminal underworld. It was that kind of life that perpetuated the rot in society and Cara chose to live differently. She went after the game changer to force a different dynamic for herself and her future. She hadn’t swapped one form of prison for another; she had the simple life now, one she’d always wanted and she was living it on her terms.

That would be the best possible outcome for me—square off my troubles and just live my life for me. No looking over my shoulder and no compromises unless I chose to make them, and absolutely no half versions of life.

I couldn’t just exist anymore. I was only going to be here once and this wasn’t a rehearsal. I wanted to live.

And I so desperately wanted to do all of that with Jake.

I had no idea how long the journey to Hawkstown was going to take but I felt the squeeze in my heart lessening the closer we go to Jake’s hometown. My body and soul sensed I was getting nearer to him. If that wasn’t a sign that he was my soul mate then what was? I only prayed—and I didn’t do that often—that Jake felt the same way. I was terrified that he wouldn’t want me when he made it home, or that his normal life would cause him to regret what we’d done. If that was the case then I’d consider asking him to run with me again, just so we could stay in our bubble. In reality, I wasn’t selfish enough to keep him obligated to me so I needed to hope and pray that he still wanted me around.

Ross and I chatted about everything and nothing as we ate up the miles, and whereas I was getting more apprehensive and excited the closer we got to Hawkstown, he seemed more and more uncomfortable. The more miles he put between him and his family, the more it became evident that he worshipped her. I felt awful that he was leaving them to keep me safe again but he assured me that they were in safe hands with his dad.

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