Dark Side of Tomorrow

Sky Love

Description

Dee is heading back to Chicago to reunite with her birth family after meeting them for the first time two weeks ago. She had come down with PI Tim, who had found her parents and went down with her to meet them after having been kidnapped some 33 years ago. The man that had kidnapped Dee was now in prison and the women she thought was her adopted mother has now committed suicide. In the apartment they lived in above the bakery they owned Dee found $150,000. Tim tells her not to deposit it in a bank. So here is Dee traveling with all this money and her cousin she had just found snooping in her things. After all the deceit and deceptions this past year Dee doesn't know who you trust and who you don't.

Sujets

• Romance
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 16 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456631949
• Langue: English

Extrait

Dark Side of Tomorrow
 
 
by
Sky Love
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copyright 2019 Sky Love,
All rights reserved.
 
 
Published by eBookIt.com
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ISBN 978-1-4566-3194-9 (ebook)
ISBN: 978-1-4566-3340-0 (paperback)
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
Dedication
I'd like to dedicate this book to my husband, Ron. Who has supported me since I started writing. He's become a great cook and taken over a lot of the household chores. Together we go rock hunting. When I get stuck writing he has even helped me get my thinking rolling again. We enjoy spending time at our cabin in Northern Michigan where I do a lot of my writing. Not only is he my husband of 56 years, the father of my children. He is my best friend. God has truly blessed me.
Table of Contents
 
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
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Chapter 1
 
Dee was driving for about an hour thinking of all that had happened this past year. A year ago, if someone would have told her about all the deceit and deception that would be revealed, she would have laughed in their face. I guess you just never know what life can dump in your lap. She felt like she was starting a new adventure, not really a fresh start because of all the past that is still hanging over her. Her adopted mother committing suicide, her adopted dad in prison for kidnapping her at birth. Other charges they couldn’t prove. She was thinking, why am I driving around with $150,000.00 in my suitcase? Just because Tim the private eye that helped her find her parents and then told her not to put the money in the bank until things settled down. One thing she regrets leaving behind is Jim.
Dee was in love with Jim, but she pushed him away because she felt her life was too much of a mess to put on him. Now here she is today on her way back to Chicago to get acquainted with her birth family.
Dee and Tim, the detective she had hired to try and locate her birth family went to Chicago. The meeting was a little strained at first. She met her parents Tom and Mary Williams, Savannah her sister and John her cousin. Dee and Tim spent the night visiting till late hours and in the morning when they were ready to head back to Michigan, John volunteered to ride back with them. That way when Dee came back to Chicago in a couple of weeks she wouldn’t have to drive alone. Seemed nice, right? Now, John who is supposed to be going to college, with Dee’s parents paying for it. Something about John going to college didn’t sound right. Plus, if he was going to school, he should be in classes now not taking two weeks to travel to Michigan. Dee was remembering some of the strange things John did while in Michigan, like jumping into her business when she gave away the bakery she owned. The bakery was obtained by her adopted father Sal because he killed the owner and paid the man’s wife a small amount of money. Dee felt she had no right to own and profit from the business. She gave the business to Kelly, a waitress that had been with them for years, and Kelly’s new husband who was the chief baker now that Sal was in prison, and her adopted mother, Maria dead. Still, no matter what the situation was, John had no business to tell her what she should do. Just before they left, Dee came into her room to find John going through her things. He said he was looking for pictures of her, for the family.
Plus, how about the fact that Dee thought she was thirty-two only to find out that she is thirty-three. Now that’s a shocker. Let’s not forget how Jim’s sister Lisa was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend Brad. Along with Brad’s ex-wife. That is how Dee met Jim. Cody, Lisa’s boyfriend, Jim, and Dee were the ones to find Lisa and Betty. Oh, what a year. Now here she is driving with a man a little younger than she is. Can she trust him or is he just another one full of lies and deceit?
They were driving about three hours with little conversation when Dee decided it was time for a break. They pull into a country cafe, that’s what the sign said, “Country Cafe” they get out and Dee says, “I’m hungry let’s eat, my treat.” Dee offered to pay because she wasn’t sure how much money John had on him. Once inside and their order placed, the waitress brings them coffee. Dee begins asking John, “Tell me how did you come to live with the Williams.”
John starts with, “Well you see I figured I could help Uncle Tom with fixing up the house.”
Dee continues, “Well how can you help around the house if you’re in college, studying takes a lot of time?”
John hesitates, toys with his food and says, “I might as well come clean. I don’t think I’ll get anything past you. I’ve only known you a short while and I can tell what you’re thinking. You are like a bloodhound. Ok, it’s like this, Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom are the best people and when someone’s in trouble they are right there.” John fumbled for words, “About two years ago I got into some trouble and spent six months in jail. When I got out Uncle Tom came and took me in and put me in college. I had promised to stay out of trouble, and I have, but I just couldn’t cut the schooling. Schedules, classrooms it drove me crazy. It’s not that I couldn’t do the work. I was getting passing grades, no trouble. I just couldn’t take the routine. I talked with Uncle Tom and he said if I got a job and enrolled in some type of course, I could still live there and then you showed up and here we are.”
Dee tells John, “I appreciate you being honest with me. I hate deceit. I’ve had enough of that to last a lifetime.” They finished their lunch, filled up the gas and were on their way again. The weather was starting to get nasty. The rain was falling in buckets.
Now fog was setting in. Dee started telling John, “I don’t like this kind of driving, let’s pull over in the next truck stop.” Two miles down the road they spot a big truck stop. Dee says, “Thank God,” parks and turns off the engine and lets out a huge sigh. John says, “You know I would offer to drive but I’m as scared as you. I don’t like weather like this either.”
Dee ask John “How about we go inside and get dessert. I’m not really hungry but maybe this fog will lift?” John agreed. Inside they took a booth in the back. The waitress told them they had Apple pie, Rhubarb pie, Cherry pie, and Coconut Cream pie.
When she said Coconut Cream pie, they looked at each other and both said, “Yes Coconut Cream.” They laughed, turned out that was both of their favorite pie. Coffee and Coconut Cream pie what a better way to wait out a storm.
Dee started asking John about the Williams. She said “I’m not trying to sound nosey. I’m just excited and nervous to learn about my family and what their life is like.”
John says, “I can totally understand that. When I first heard about you being found, I was full of questions. Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom were beside themselves. You see they had felt guilty all those years. They felt if they wouldn’t have gone to the store and left you with Mario. You would never have been kidnapped.” John paused for a moment and had tears in his eyes. He gulped them back and continued. “They told Savannah and me after you were found that they were afraid you wouldn’t want anything to do with them. The first year for them was almost unbearable, they had even thought of suicide. Uncle Tom had lost several jobs, Aunt Mary became very withdrawn. I guess they were a mess. Into the third year, a pastor from the local Baptist church came to visit them. They didn’t let him in, he left them bible tracts. He came every week same time. Finally, after about the 8th or 9th week, they let him in.” John lowered his head and started to cry, excused himself to the restroom. Dee is sitting there trying to figure things out. When she started this trip, she wasn’t sure if she liked John, she didn’t trust him. Now she is seeing another side to him. John comes back to the table. Dee says, “John, I’m so sorry for upsetting you.” John begins, “No, it’s ok. I just get a little emotional when it comes to them and the preacher. You see he never gave up on them. It was at the end of that third year when they finally walked into the church. They got saved and started helping at the church. Uncle Tom is now the assistant pastor of that church.” Dee says, “Wow that’s wonderful, you must be proud of him.” John looks her straight in the eye and says, “If it wasn’t for Uncle Tom I don’t know where I’d be, maybe dead and headed to hell.” The waitress comes and brings their check and asks if they would like more coffee. They said, “No.” Paid their bill and left.
Once in the car, John continued to talk about the Williams. Then John laughs and says “Now, we have Savannah, her real name is Mary Savannah, but she says it’s too confusing having the same name as your mother. So, she uses her middle name. I love her to death, but she is hooked on this online dating thing. She was in a relationship with this guy for three years, she thought they were going to get married. Found out he was married. She took it hard. Then started meeting guys online. I’m afraid she’s going to meet someone dangerous and get hurt. When I say something to her, she laughs at me.”
Dee asks, “What is she studying.” John says “Criminal law, she will be graduating soon. Her friend has a detective agency and she would like to work for him.” Dee replies, “That’s impressive”
Screeching brakes, head slamming into the window, glass flying. The smell of fire, gas, and chemicals from the airbags. John is trying to mov