Hard Redemption by Emily J. Wright

Author:Emily J. Wright [Wright, Emily J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

We were sitting across each other in the limo. I was persistently staring at her with love and taking cold deep sighs in admiration of her beauty.

She hadn’t uttered a word since we left the house around forty-five minutes ago. She was acting like a complete stranger and had her face turned away the whole time. But her occasional dangling of foot was inadvertently successful in teasing me.

“Where are you taking me?” She finally said something to me—though still facing away—as she rolled down the windows and glanced outside.

“To the city.”

“Then, why are we still in the suburbs? We should have reached there by now.”

“What will we do by getting there so early?”—I looked at my watch—“It’s five minutes shy of six; dinner reservation is at 8.”

I finally got her attention, and she turned her face towards me—not with love, but anger.

“What? Then why did we leave for the date so early?”

“Do you realize it’s been three days since I got here, but I never got a chance to even look at you properly? I am always busy with Casey; you are always busy bitching about me to your father; and the little time we had together is spent on childish banters, insults and you slapping me. And then, of course, there is Walter—my nemesis. Now—I have you all to myself in this confide space where nobody will disturb us.”

“Unbelievable! I am out of here. I am calling Walter.”

“You can’t. I have the signal jammer on. As I said—nobody to disturb us. But if you really want to say hi to him, we are about to make a turn onto your street as we speak. Maybe you get lucky and catch him.”

“What?” Amber was shocked—and the look on her face was hilarious. It literally looked as if she got electrocuted from the power grid.

“Look—that’s Casey in the front yard. Say hi—”

“Casey . . . Casey . . . ,” she shouted, sticking her head out of the window as the limo drove by her home.

But, Casey didn’t hear her.

“Oh, don’t worry. We will pass through this street a couple of times. Maybe, she will hear you the next time or after that . . . if she would still be out there.”

Amber was really freaking out and started banging on the partition. “Hey, stop the car . . . stop the car.”

“Hey, hey . . . calm down. You are not in danger,” I said holding her arms and tried to calm her down.

But she jerked her hand away. “What kind of sick game are you playing? . . . Am I being kidnapped?”

“Yes, Amber, you are being kidnapped. And what should I ask for ransom from your cheap father?”—I began stroking my chin pretending to think and decide—“That man wipes his butt from one-ply toilet paper. If I ask too much in ransom, he would have to wipe his ass from the newspaper for the rest of his life to compensate for that money.”

I burst into laughter when the thought of Frank getting micro-cuts from newspaper crossed my mind.

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