Apologies for taking so long to update the blog. I've been tied up trying to finish "War angel III: Catalina" for some time now. Please enjoy this sample chapter from my novella, "TOURNIQUET" which is actually connected to the "WAR ANGEL" books. Those who have read them will recognize Angela and her mom Josephine from the first book. As always, enjoy and feel free to leave feedback.
9
Safe Inside Insanity
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“I
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thought you
were going home to stay with your sisters?” Gavin asked, shocked to find Angela
back at his place, curled up like a kitten on the futon.
He’d just got home
from work so tired that he almost thought it might be dream. When she jumped
up, rushed to him at the door and hugged him, he knew it was real.
“I need to be here
with you tonight,” she told him and squeezed him so tightly that she nearly
smothered him.
“You know you can be
here anytime you want. I’ll always be here for you,” he reassured her.
For the rest of the night, they lay in the bed
together but didn’t exchange words. The voices inside Gavin’s head had been
silenced as her head lay on his chest and Angela didn’t have to worry about
unwanted hands or eyes on her body. She was safe and he was sane, at least for
the moment. Sleep didn’t come easily for either one of them. They both drifted
in and out of dreamland in shifts, almost as if they instinctively watched over
one another. At any moment, Angela expected the police to knock on the door looking
to put her in handcuffs for assaulting her stepfather and Gavin waited for his ghosts
to begin to torment him as they usually did whenever it was quiet.
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© 2012 Keith Kareem Williams
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