Reckless Abandon by Sierra Hill

Author:Sierra Hill [Hill, Sierra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Ten Years Earlier

“Hey, I was thinking. Maybe we should go camping this weekend?”

I’d already been up for an hour and completed a workout and a run when I walked into my bedroom, a towel wrapped around my waist, fresh from my shower. Sage was in the same spot he was when I left, but now he was awake.

He’d been sleeping an inordinate amount since getting out on bail. Not that I blame him. His life had taken a bad turn and gone to hell in a handbasket after his arrest. He’d no longer had a job because Stu the grocer fired him while he’d been locked up. Regardless of the fact that Sage had worked there since he was fourteen, he cited “attendance issues” as the reason. Disloyal motherfucker. It left Sage without a job, with no prospects for anything else and no other way to earn money until his trial started.

Although the justice system says an individual is innocent until proven guilty, this back-water town felt otherwise, and no one would hire a guy who’d been arrested for murder. Even if it was the murder of a man everyone knew was a nuisance and a child abuser.

London and I were nervous about Sage’s state of mind and what he would do when we left. I was set to head off to boot camp in less than two weeks and London would be off to Nashville to start school in mid-August. We wouldn’t have much more time to have fun or to be together.

Although fun wasn’t an adjective to describe this summer. It was also clear Sage wanted little to do with us and would leave the house and not return until late in the evenings well past the curfew my dad had set for us, smelling of cigarettes, weed, and booze.

Graduation night was a shit show, with Sage getting completely trashed at an after-party where we all celebrated our graduations from high school. Sage didn’t attend the ceremony with the class of one-hundred and eighty kids but he still earned his diploma.

It was like living with a ticking time bomb for weeks and I tiptoed around him, either looking to appease him and make him happy or having him ditch us and completely ignore us.

I didn’t know which Sage I would get that morning when he rolled over, eyeing my attire with a lift of his brows, reaching for a cigarette.

Propping himself up against the bedframe, he stuck it between his lips and lit up. He’d been smoking like a chimney, but what could any of us do? He was a loose cannon and rightfully so. I tried to remain empathetic to his plight, but it just got harder and harder.

I had no idea how to cheer him up or make things right for him. None of it was in my control.

He blew out a smoke-filled breath, finally answering my question about camping. “I don’t really feel like it.”

After trying for weeks to be there for him, my anger got the best of me.

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