Covet by Amarie Avant

Author:Amarie Avant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amarie Avant

17

“I thought we were going to see her today,” Raven pouted. Wind flowed through her hair as the Chevelle sped down the highway.

When she’d told Liam that Alvin confessed to being Charlene’s oldest friend, and always knowing where she was, Liam promised to make flight reservations. Pierre was on one of his treks, and he didn’t want to ask his nana to use another family jet. They were supposed to leave today, and had skipped school for this reason.

“It’s spring break in Southern California, Raven, I had to get redeye tickets for later this evening in order for us to travel together. It was too last minute,” Liam repeated.

Though he was being deceptive, he had a surprise in mind. Only a phone call was required before one of his family’s Learjets would be in North Carolina, gassed up just for him. Yet, intuition told him to stall. Stall like he’d done that one fateful day on the gorge, when he feigned more head pain than he’d really had. And look how that ended? Later on, Raven mustered enough courage to ask about her father.

A sort of sixth sense forewarned that finding Charlene might leave them in a worse fate than having a thirteen-year-old girl heartbroken over being shut down for just one simple question. Who was her dad? Who, really, was Charlene Shaw?

“We’ve got a late flight, this evening, Re. I promise we’ll get to L.A. soon enough,” he said taking a deep breath.

Raven grumbled.

“Hey, none of that frowning. I thought we were going to make this a relaxing day. No talk about family, friends, or enemies.” Liam turned to her for a split second, and added, “Just us.”

The smirk turned into a full-blown grin as she kicked off her flip-flops and crossed her legs, feet on the dashboard. Bright orange toenail polish showed flicks of gold in the early morning sun. It matched her camisole which was under an old pullover sweater.

“So where are we going?” If they weren’t going to find her mom today, she wanted to know where they were headed. When he grinned, she added, “We passed the gorge. C’mon. Tell me already!”

He’d told her to pack a bikini, which she wore under white Daisy dukes and her top. In the past, they swam at the gorge during summer. No matter how much she loved being near the water, she was happy when they passed by that particular one. She didn’t really want to go to the place where she first kissed Chris.

“We’ve gone to the gorge thousands of times as little kids, no gorge today.” With a wink, he flipped on the radio.

When he took to the highway, heading to the beach, she asked, “Are you taking me back to the lighthouse?” They’d been there a month ago, and she wanted to go back.

“Nope.”

She gave a slight frown of disappointment as they passed the entrance. Pulling her hair to the side, she braided it over her shoulder, then unbraided it, again asking where they were going.

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