Not Done Living by Suzanne D. Williams

Author:Suzanne D. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, suspense, clean & wholesome, thriller, 90 minute reads, short stories, Christian fiction, contemporary romance, alpha male, girls with guns
Publisher: Suzanne D. Williams
Published: 2016-05-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

A crowd of teens bunched into groups at the bus stop. Six boys sporting droopy pants and black hoodies, a couple kids of the more nerdy type, and a handful of girls in tight blue jeans and sparkling tops. But the girl in the pink top drew her eye. It was like looking at herself at that age, only clean and happy.

Casey exited the truck, pulling her shirt tail over the butt of her gun, and crossed the street, picking up her pace toward the other curb.

The grunt and groan of the school bus pierced her ears. She had only a few minutes to do this. She had to make it quick and sound logical, not frightened.

One of the boys gave her a snobbish glance. She stared for a moment. That kid thought he had his life in the bag, but he had no idea of the true evil out there, the pain that other people caused.

Circling into her sister’s view, Casey approached cautiously. “Maddy.”

Madison’s eyes spread. “Cay ...”

Casey took hold of her arm and tugged her away from the group. “You can’t call me that,” she whispered. “It’s Casey now.”

Her sister silenced. “Where have you been?” she asked, seconds later. “It’s been, what? Seven years?”

“Too many. Listen, can you trust me?”

Asking her sister for trust when she wasn’t willing to give Mason any struck her hard. Leaving him on the side of the road had been the worst thing she’d ever done, but also the safest. He thought he knew her, but he didn’t. And he’d become a hindrance. She couldn’t go anywhere without wanting him. She couldn’t do anything without needing him. Nowhere in her life was their room for that.

“Trust is earned, and you’ve been gone,” her sister replied.

The rumble of the bus grew louder, and Casey pulled her sister out further from the group. “You have to give it to me because we’re both in danger.”

“Danger?” Madison made a disbelieving face, her pretty lips forming a pout. “What have you done this time? Last I saw you, you were high on drugs, living with ... what was his name?”

“Never mind his name. This isn’t about him. This is stuff you don’t know anything about, and these people mean to see both you and me dead. I need you to come with me. They may be here already. In fact, I’m sure of it. They know who you are, where you are, and what I’ve become.” Taking her sister’s sleeve, she moved her toward the street.

But Madison pulled away. “No. Your messed up life is your own. It doesn’t involve me. I have a family who love me, who’ll want to know where I went. What about them? You going to protect them, too?”

The teens lined up for the bus, now slowing at the curb, and her sister took a step in that direction. Casey crossed in front of her. “Please, Maddy. I’m telling you the truth.”

“You wouldn’t know the truth when it stared you in the face, and I .

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