One Moment (The Little Hollow Series Book 1) by Danielle Dickson Page B

and then looked back to her. “I was seventeen years old and I could’ve lost my life that night had I not had left with my mom.”
    She looked at me and after several agonizing seconds gave me a simple nod to carry on. By the time I finished telling her a bit about my background, finishing with mine and my mom’s getaway, she was staring at the ceiling of the little office. I could see the wheels turning in her head.
    “Why would you choose to keep coming back here? Surely that’s a little insane, to risk what happened yesterday? Do you have any idea what you’ve dug back up?” I couldn’t tell if she was genuinely interested in an answer or if she just said what she was thinking but I decided to answer her anyway.
    “I didn’t mean for her to ever find out, I’ve always been so careful. It’s something I’ve needed to do for me and I realize how much she’s hurting; believe me I do.” Because I was feeling it too. “Sammy was my everything and seeing her again…look, I’m just going to come right out with it. I need you to try get her to listen to me.”
    She swirled around, eyes bulging. “Oh do you? You may have spun me a heart wrenching story but it doesn’t take away the fact that you’ve had eight years to drop by and explain this to her yourself. That girl is like a sister to me and I won’t have you coming here ruining everything she’s pieced back together. Tiny piece by tiny piece. We’ve all had hard lives, believe me, but Sam deserves to put the past behind her, for good!” She paused and just as I was about to plead my case, she put up her finger. “ But, I can’t shake this feeling that she needs a little closure on the past instead of just burying it away. She has a habit of doing that. I can’t guarantee I can get her to listen to you but there’s a fundraiser Saturday night that we’ll be at, be there and I’ll have her on her own so that you can talk to her.”
    As she walked out of the office, I couldn’t help but smile at this small triumph.
    I made my way back out onto the garage floor, Lewis was still in the hood of the Chevy but looked up as I got near. “How’d it go? She didn’t look too mad so I guess it wasn’t a complete flop?” I was trying not to be too optimistic at this point but I couldn’t help but smile back at him. “It worked then?”
    “I sure hope so. Good luck with that one though, Lew, she’s one feisty woman.” He chuckled “She told me about some fundraiser Saturday night, they’re both going to be there. Fancy it?”
    He wiped his hands on a rag. “Sure, man,” he said with a wink. “Wanna grab something from the diner?”
    “Why not.”
    We walked out the garage and I couldn’t help but feel better than when I walked in. I hoped she’d hear me out, having her best friend on my side, well kind of, was better than nothing right?

Driving over to Sharlington, I couldn’t get the thought of Kee acting so weird out of my head. I didn’t get it; she was never secretive with me. Maybe it was just the fact she was liking Lewis and she wasn’t used to it?
    But why wouldn’t she tell me? I’d told her more intimate things than that before. Maybe she just didn’t want to share her good news while I was going through a bad time. Which was kind of nice of her but I’d rather she just told me and we could pretend to be normal girlfriends and talk about boys for just one day.
    I pulled up to the superstore and parked my car, thinking it was best to just forget about it until later I put my mind to the task at hand. I didn’t have time to dawdle about, I still had to get all these bits and get back to visit Mrs Gracefield before my final client of the day.
    Seems luck was on my side; I’d missed the lunch time rush. I picked up everything I needed and checked out in twenty minutes, that had to have been some sort of record surely. I was so hungry by this point I could’ve eaten my own arm so I stopped by the local fast food joint and got