Evil Secrets Trilogy by Vickie McKeehan

Author:Vickie McKeehan [McKeehan, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beachdevils Press
Published: 2017-06-19T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12 Book 2

In the dream, she was twelve.

Baylee tiptoed to the door, checked the hallway. She wouldn’t let him see her, catch her. If he did, in his present state, she knew what to expect. She hated him when he was like this. Her hands shook just thinking about him finding her hiding place inside Tanya’s bedroom closet. And now, just to Baylee’s luck, Tanya was out running errands. Otherwise, the woman always acted as her go-between, her protector. But at times like this, Baylee couldn’t rely on anyone but herself. Any other time her father could be a decent human being, but when he drank, like today, forget it.

William Scott was a mean, drunken bully.

As she stood just behind the closet door, she strained to listen. Maybe he’d passed out by now and the coast was clear. If she could just make it to the backdoor, she could run down the street to Kit’s house. Even though Kit had it far worse than she did, Kit would hide her in the pool house for the next few hours until her father either passed out and sobered up or exhausted himself searching for her.

She sucked in a breath and found the courage to open the door. She stuck her head out a few inches and listened again. Deciding the way was clear, she crossed the width of Tanya’s bedroom right off the kitchen and stopped at the door again to listen for any sign her father might have wandered into the kitchen. Sucking up her nerve, she opened the bedroom door and peered out. The room was quiet. It looked like she was home free. He had to be somewhere else in the house. She ran like a deer across the room, threw open the back door, and stepped straight into her father’s chest.

“There you are, Sarah.”

The open-handed slap snuck out like a snake to sting her cheek. “I’m not Sarah. It’s Baylee, Dad. I’m Baylee.”

“You aren’t sneaking out of this house, Baylee Diane. You aren’t going down to that goddamned woman’s house. Not today; not ever again; no way. I’ve told you a hundred times to stay away from that bitching viper.” Backing her up in the kitchen, William yelled in her face, “You’ll stay away from her or I’ll know the reason why.”

Baylee lied with conviction and not for the first time. “I…I…wasn’t. I was going over to Quinn’s house.”

“Don’t lie to me.” He grabbed her arm and twisted it back. “I don’t want you around that woman, you understand? Kit might be okay, for now. But if she’s around that mother of hers for any length of time, she’ll turn out just like her. You need to…find new friends.”

“Kit is not like…Alana. She isn’t.”

“Yeah…well, she will be. Living with that evil woman will make her turn mean. You wait and see. No one can trust ’Lana Stevens. Believe me, I know.” He swayed as if it were a struggle to remain standing.

Silently, she willed him to pass out.

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