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- Authors: Mila Kane
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SAME SHIT.
Different day.
Different climate.
New start.
Or, at least that’s what I’m telling myself as I dig through my still-packed
bags, searching for a clean sock—it doesn’t even have to be a matching one,
just a clean one—in the tiny shoebox of a bedroom at Henry’s cabin. Henry is
my father. The father whom I haven’t seen since I was eleven years old. The
father who bailed on our family long before that. The father whom Jesse
barely even remembers, seeing as how he was only seven when our dad left
for good. The father who reluctantly agreed to let Jess and me stay with him
when shit hit the fan back home. All out of options, I unfolded the scrap of
paper I’d managed to keep hidden from Mom all these years—the one with
my dad’s address and phone number—and made the call. We went from the
shittiest part of Oakland to River’s fucking Edge, Nowhere, USA.
Population: us, and like three other people.
I grab one of Jesse’s socks and bring the dingy, off-white thing to my
nose before deciding that it smells clean enough. I throw on my old pair of
black army boots that hit just below my calf over my black leggings, button
up my oversized flannel, and pull on my gray beanie over my messy hair. I
make a mental note to buy us some actual winter clothes with my first
paycheck.
You’d think it would still be warm in October—granted, it’s
practically November—but you’d be wrong. When people think of
California, they think of palm trees and beaches. But here? Way up here?
There’s nothing but mountains and pine trees. Which, I’ll admit, is part of its
charm, and I’d probably be in heaven if it weren’t for the fact that I’m
fucking freezing and Henry already lectured us not to turn the heat above
sixty.
I stand with my hands on my hips, scanning the room for an acceptable
hiding place. The mattress sits on the floor next to a busted old nightstand.
The closet is overflowing with storage and trash bags full of God knows
what. It’s not that I have anything of value to most people in this particular
bag—besides the few bucks I have left to my name—but it’s all I own. My
entire life has been reduced to three duffle bags. And if I’ve learned anything
from growing up with an addict for a parent in Oakland, it’s always hide your
shit.
I bend over to zip my bag shut before wedging it between the nightstand
and the mattress. It will have to do. Henry says River’s Edge isn’t like The
Bay Area, and while that’s clear, I’d argue that people are the same at their
core, regardless of their zip code. We’re all flawed, selfish humans doing
what it takes in order to survive. Myself included.
I suck in a fortifying breath, taking in my new life, and mentally
preparing myself for what today holds. I have to enroll Jesse in school, fight
with him to get him there first, then apply to anywhere and everywhere in this
one-horse town so I can pick up a job. Henry said he could try to find
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