Never Let You Go (Never #2) by Monica Murphy

Author:Monica Murphy [Murphy, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472237217
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2016-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Dreams were hopeless. Goals a total crock of shit. Life did nothing but show me again and again that I was wasting my time believing something good could happen to me in my life.

Nothing good ever happened to the boy whose mama had left him the first chance she got. Whose dad was a sick motherfucker who forced him to watch things no little boy should have to witness. Who grew up pissed off and hurt and defensive. Who knew there was no way he stood a chance at having something normal.

I was sitting on the couch in the dimly lit living room, zoning out as I watched TV. Full House was running on Nickelodeon and yeah, I was watching a channel made for a bunch of preteen girls, but there was nothing else on.

Besides, Full House tapped into all my favorite secret fantasies. The big, happy family who took care of one another no matter what, and even better, this particular family was unique, closer to my story.

Well. Not quite. The show might have had the single dad like mine, but that was where the similarities ended compared to my dear old dad. They had Uncle Jesse and the girls and Joey, and then Jesse married the hot Becky and everything was really coming together then. Pure fantasy stuff at that point, all those people seemingly living together in that giant house. One big, happy family.

Something I had no experience with whatsoever.

The door leading to the garage creaked open and there was my dad, standing in the middle of the kitchen and glancing around the room in disgust. “What the fuck happened in here, boy?”

I winced at the sound of his voice. He sounded drunk. I glanced over the couch and caught a glimpse of him. Red-faced and sneering, hands resting on hips as he surveyed all that he saw. Like the mighty king had come home to lord over his piece-of-shit castle.

“You didn’t clean the kitchen like I told you to,” he bellowed. He was always yelling. I don’t think he realized that after a while, I just tuned him out. It was a lot more effective if he didn’t yell as much, so when he finally did, I knew he was fucking pissed.

But my old man wasn’t that smart.

“I’ll clean it in a minute,” I called, my focus still on the show on the TV. I needed to finish the fantasy, and then I’d wash his damn dirty dishes. Maybe pretending I shared the duty with someone else would help soften the blow. I wished like hell I had siblings. A little brother or sister or even better, an understanding older brother. One who would take me to the park along with his friends so we could all hang out. That would’ve been real nice. Anything would be nicer than what I had.

“Damn it, Will. You need to pay fucking attention for once!” He appeared in front of me like magic, since he was always good at sneaking around.

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