A Fierce Man (APPALACHIAN STAR #7) by Deanndra Hall EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Deanndra Hall
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Priest
The introduction I got was nice, but it didn’t even brush on the
reality of who I am and what I’ve done. It’s my mission to blow their little
minds, and I can do it so easily that I won’t even break a proverbial sweat.
“Thank you to Mr. Powell, Mr. Reitgarten, and Mrs. Henry for inviting me
here today. They wanted me to tell you about myself. Now, look at me. I
look like a kinda boring guy, right?”
There’s a twittering from the crowd of middle schoolers, and then I hear
a little voice say, “Kara thinks you’re hot.”
My head whips toward the voice until my eyes find her, a little redhead
sitting about three rows back in the bleachers, and I smile. “You can tell
Kara that I said thanks, but I’m pretty sure I’m a little too old for her.” That
makes them all laugh. “Actually, I’m older than any of you think I am. I’m
forty-seven.” There’s a collective gasp that almost makes me laugh. “Yeah.
Not having to be out in the world fending for myself for a long time left me
with a baby face, but what it didn’t do to my face it did to my heart. There
was a time when I wasn’t a very nice guy. Matter of fact, I was a horrible
person, and I know that no matter what I do, that horrible person is still
inside me. All I can do is love people until he can’t come out. So let me tell
you who I am and where I’ve been.
“My name is Darius Fowler, but most people call me Priest. But before
I got that nickname, they called me Doom, because anybody who had to
deal with me was doomed. I was seven when my dad was killed in a
robbery gone wrong and, no, he wasn’t the one being robbed. He was the
one doing the robbing. See, he was a member of a gang in south Chicago
called the Masters of Sin, and they were a bad bunch. When he was killed,
it left my mom with three kids to feed and no money. I was the youngest.
My older sister was already dealing drugs, and my brother, who was the
oldest in the family, was already part of the gang at fourteen. On top of that,
my dad had kids with two other women, and some of them were members
of the gang too.
I will say, the gang members took care of all of us, made
sure we had food, a place to live, clothes and shoes, but they didn’t care
about education, so sometimes we went to school and sometimes we didn’t.
“I started helping my sister deal when I was twelve. We made enough
money to help keep food on the table. That was important. When I was
fourteen, the gang started recruiting me, and it wasn’t long before they
figured out that I was angry deep down inside.
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