Highest Bidder Club : Complete Collection 1-5 by Hart Cassi

Author:Hart , Cassi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

April

Michael must actually be an angel. Why else would he be doing this for me, and Amelia? How did he even know about my sister when I kept that from him during our wonderful night together?

Trying to hide my frazzled state, I swiftly sign Amelia out of school, pretending to have a doctor’s appointment as the reason. It’s unprecedented and when she appears in the office, she’s clearly confused and a little frightened.

“What’s happening?” she asks, clutching my hand.

“Everything’s fine,” I assure her. Oh God, how to explain? “I met someone and he’s going to help us get away from Uncle Harris.” I think. I hope. I pray.

Once we’re outside and she sees Michael resting against his car with his strong arms crossed over his broad chest, she relaxes a little. He looks like a warrior, and I want more than anything to tell her about him knocking Uncle Harris to the ground with one blow, but I feel like that can wait.

“We can trust him?” she asks, but it’s barely a question.

Michael oozes confidence and strength from every pore, and his smile is warm and reassuring as I introduce them. My little sister tenses up again when we pull up outside our apartment building, but I tell her it’s only to grab a few things. Neither one of us has much to begin with, and we hurriedly fill a few plastic grocery bags with some clothes our toothbrushes, and shampoo. Amelia grasps her little handheld gaming system she wants to bring, but I’m sure it was stolen along with almost everything else in this nightmare home of ours, so I make her leave it behind.

“I’ll get you a new one,” I promise. “Same with your phone. Leave it here so he can’t track us.”

A ripple of something I don’t quite recognize goes down my spine. Is it hope? I can almost picture myself getting a job, making friends, and walking freely down the sidewalk without a time limit on how long I can be out.

I can see she’s upset about losing the lifeline to the friends she made at school, but it will all work out. It has to.

“Once I get a job, that’ll be the first thing we replace.”

“What’s happening?” she asks again as we run down the stairs, both of us too impatient to wait for the rickety old elevator.

“I don’t know,” I admit. “But it’s going to be better.”

I hope so anyway. That’s about all I really have right now, but it feels good. It feels even better when Michael takes my hand in the car on the way to his place. But why is he doing this? Responsibility? Pity? It’s surely not what’s welling up in my heart every time I glance at him, what’s been stewing since I made him leave me on my stoop. It can’t be love, but if it gets Amelia and me our freedom, I’ll take it. Even if my heart ends up broken at the end.

Once in his

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