Promise Kept (INDECENT INTENT #1) by Jaxson Kidman EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jaxson Kidman
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THE WHOLE “WELCOME TO THE FUNERAL” THING
ELLIS
This whole thing starts at a funeral.
Standing outside on a sunny afternoon, looking around,
trying to avoid making eye contact with the bulky, glistening
casket that contains the remains of my best friend.
To be fair, it’s been a long time since I’ve talked to him.
I’m not even sure if I can consider him a best friend.
I guess that status doesn’t matter at any point in life,
does it?
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Not that it matters right now.
He’s getting ready to be lowered into the ground.
To be covered by dirt.
Gone forever.
Nothing but a memory now.
As for me, I’m standing on the ground.
Not sinking in.
As far as my eyes go?
They’re open.
They’re working.
They’re staring right at the last person I should be staring
at.
Hint – this is when things start to get really fucked up.
LARISSA
Who wouldn’t get drunk at their father’s funeral, right?
Especially this one.
My father didn’t grow to be some old man. He didn’t
suffer from ailments or have a sudden heart attack in his
sixties. Ironic enough, if he had died in his sixties, a lot of
people would have said,
‘that’s so young…’
Well, here’s my father.
Forty-five. Dead.
I find it pleasant that people think it’s okay to walk up to
me and point out that I had him for twenty-four years. As
though that means a thing.
I’m completely alone now.
Like… really alone.
Not that I was close to my father.
I don’t know if I’ve been close to anyone.
Definitely not my mother.
She’s somewhere with a glass in hand, crying fake tears,
looking for her next money man.
I’m not looking anywhere.
But not looking anywhere means you are looking
somewhere.
I see him on the other side of the funeral.
For a moment I actually lose my breath.
The man from so many pictures is here.
My father’s best friend.
The man I’ve secretly had a crush on…
THE WHOLE “MORE INFORMATION” THING… WITH A SIDE OF EYE
FUCKING
ELLIS
There has always been a group of us.
I can list you the names, but that doesn’t matter right
now.
In some somber way, the list keeps growing shorter.
Not in a quick timespan.
It was Hux who got us all together.
A lifetime ago in a sense.
He got us together and then bound us together when he
suckered every one of us into investing in a crazy idea he
had.
Yet the first time there was a hiccup in his business plan,
what did he do?
He killed himself.
I look down at my right wrist.
I wear a gold watch worth thirty grand.
Why?
I don’t really fucking know why.
I just do it.
I don’t care whether people know I’m rich or not.
I reach for the watch and pull at the band so I can see the
tattoo on my wrist.
That’s when I hear someone say my name.
“Ellis.”
I look up, forgetting about the past and stare at the
present.
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