Drifter by Bella Jewel EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Bella Jewel
- Language: English
- Genre: New Adult & College Romance
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She won’t wake up, and I know right way that this was a mistake. It was
a huge mistake. I grip her shoulders, wrapping my fingers around her arms
and shaking. She doesn’t move. God, no, this can’t be happening. Not now,
not here. I shake her again, but her head flops to the side. She has a grey
tinge to her skin that I’m sure wasn’t there a moment ago. I swallow, feeling
the sting of bile as it rises up my throat. I don’t cry. My tears are now
lodged into a place I can’t get to. I stare down at her lifeless body, and I
know it’s the end for her. Guilt rises in my chest as I force myself to my
feet.
I can’t be here. I have to get out. I’ll call the police, let them know it
was a drug overdose. Then I’ll be out of here for good. I won’t look back. I
stare down at the woman that brought me into this world, and I feel nothing.
I don’t even feel angry that I never got to tell her what I thought about the
life she gave me. I don’t feel sad that she’s no longer around. I don’t even
feel happy that I don’t ever have to live under her shadow again. No, the
only thing I feel is a deep emptiness that goes right into my very core and
lodges itself there, blocking out any other feelings that may try to rise.
I turn, my fingers tremble as I lift her cell phone and hit the three
numbers that will connect me to an ambulance – 911. When they answer, I
simply tell them what I know as I stare down at my mother’s lifeless form.
She’s going blue now, an ugly shade of blue that is making my stomach
turn. I hang up the phone when the operator tells me to ‘hold on, sit tight,
we’ll be there soon’. I’m sure they will be here soon, to take my mother to a
cold place where I know she belongs. They’ll be here to free her of her life,
but me…I won’t be. I won’t be here, because now I’m going to free myself
of my life, in the only way I know how.
By running.
~*PRESENT*~
I tuck my dark brown hair behind my ears, and lift my sunglasses to
stare at the large three-story house, surrounded by barbed wire, that’s
situated right on the side of the highway. This is the address I was given.
Apparently, this is where my father spends most of his time. I see a lineup
of shiny Harley Davidson’s out the front, all sitting together like they’ve
been perfectly placed. I can hear music booming from the large, red-brick
home that looks like it’s seen better days. Is that a smashed window? This
should be fun. I walk to the gate and rattle it – padlocked – of course it is. I
look to my left and see a bundle of old stacked pallets. Grinning, I sling my
backpack over my shoulder and saunter over.
When I reach the pallets, I climb on top of them and grip the fence with
one hand, using the pole beside it to hoist myself over.
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