Under the Lights by Abbi Glines EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Abbi Glines
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Football Fiction
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WILLA
“Hasn’t changed much since you left. Go ahead and unpack. Settle in. I
got more work to do up at the house. We’ll go in the morning and get
you registered for school,” Nonna said as the pinched frown on her face
that had been there since she picked me up at the bus station an hour ago,
only grew more intense. “Don’t go nowhere. You hear me? Stay put
until I get back.”
I managed a nod. I hadn’t been able to say more than “thanks” to her
since I’d seen her. The last time I’d seen my nonna was two years ago
when she’d saved up enough money to come visit us in Little Rock. She
was a large part of my life. There had been times in my childhood that
when I thought no one else loved me, I knew she did. Nonna never let
me down.
Seeing the obvious disappointment in her gaze now was hard to
swallow. But I hadn’t expected anything different. It was a look I had
gotten used to. I saw it in everyone’s eyes these days when they looked at
me.
No one believed me. Not my mother, certainly not my stepfather, or
the police officer who’d arrested me. Not even my brother. No one.
Which meant my nonna wasn’t going to believe me either. Sure she’d
agreed to take me in when my mother packed my bags and left them for
me on the front porch the day I was released from the correctional center
I’d spent the last six months in. I had nowhere to go, and calling my
mother’s mother was the only thing I knew to do. I’d lived with Nonna
until the summer I turned eleven. Her home was the only real home I’d
ever known.
My mother had finally decided she could take care of me, the child
she’d had at fifteen and left with her mother the day she graduated from
high school three years later. When my brother, Chance, had been eight,
his father had finally married my mother. She wanted to bring me into
the family. Problem was, I never really fit. My younger brother was
adored by his father, and I seemed to always be in the way. I kept to
myself until I turned fifteen and everything started to change.
“Answer me, Willa,” Nonna demanded, snapping me out of my
thoughts.
“Yes, ma’am,” I replied quickly. I didn’t want to upset her. She was all
I had left.
Nonna’s expression softened; then she nodded. “Good. I’ll be back
soon as my work at the big house is done,” she added, then turned and
walked away, leaving me in the bedroom that had been mine for the first
eleven years of my life. I had been happy here. I had felt wanted here.
But I’d messed that up, too. I was good at messing up. If there was a
wrong decision to be made, I managed to make it. I intended to put that
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