Life of a Reformed Wild Child by Valerie Ziegler (best non fiction books of all time .TXT) 📖

so defenseless before. Before she could even get control of herself, he was kissing her. As her head spinned from the intensety of the kiss, Elaina realized that this may be the last kiss they ever shared. After Jason pulled away, she grabbed his face, and gazed deep into his eyes saying, "I have to do this. You were right. I have to fight for her. I'm not an idiot though. I'm gonna need some kind of defense. Maybe we could strap a gun to my ankle or something, and I could wair a recording device so you could listen in."
"Those are good ideas, but where are we gonna get a gun. We'd have to get a liscence first, and we don't have the time."
"That's not an issue. For God's sake, we can steal one, and a recorder shouldn't be too hard to find. We have thirteen hours to do this," she responded.
"Honey, this isn't one of your CSI episodes. It's real life. We can't do this by ourselves. We really should go to the police."
"No!" she cut him off, "I told you that I can't do that. I am going to meet Kyle tonight, and I don't care what you think."
"Alright, but we're doing this my way. You will wair a gun strapped to your ankle, and we need to have some way to comunicate. Also, I'm going to follow you in my car," he told his wife.
"Well, you can't use your car because he might recognize it. Ask your brother if you can borrow his. I'm sure he'll let you. We only have one problem left," she informed him.
"What that?" Jason asked.
"What are we gonna do with Avery? I don't want him out of our sight, but it's too dangerous for him to come with us," she dispared.
"We could leave him with my brother," he suggested.
"Good idea. You go take him to your brother's and trade cars with him, and I'm gonna go steal a gun."
Elaina got situated in her car and braced herself for the pain. This was the last place she had seen her daughter. The realization that that last car ride might have the last time she ever got the chance to see her baby was mind-numbingly painful. But she got control of herself. She could handle it. She then put her hand on the wheels and sped off.
As she pulled into the parking lot of some random, little hunting store, she began panicking again. If she got caught stealing a gun, she would never be able to go to the deli tonight. And if that happened, God knows what that crazy man would do. Again, she got control off herself and began walking into the store. She smiled at one of the workers and slowly wandered to the back of the store. Much to her dismay, she discovered that the guns, for the most part, were all locked up behind the counter in the front. Her mind instintly began devicing a plan. Assault was the only thing she could come up with. Calculating that there were only three people in the store, she concluded that she could knock them all out if she had to.
Nervously, she approached the front of the store. She really didn't want to hurt any of these people, but there was no other was. Interupting her sinful plan, she heard the man standing behind the counter say, "How can I help you little lady?"
"Well, actually, my car broke down, and I was wondering if you could jump it for me," she lied smoothly.
"You came to the right guy. I'd be happy to jump your car for ya. Which one is your's?" he asked.
After Elaina had managed to get the manager out of the store, she looked around. To her satisfaction, she only saw one other person in the store. She figured that the other person that she had seen earlier had already left so now, she only had to knock out one person. Grabbing a fire extinguisher, she walked up slowly behind the man in the store. Shutting her eyes, she knocked him over the head forcefully. He fell to the floor in a heap, and Elaina dropped down to check his pulse. He was still breathing so she felt a little better. Wasting no time, she took of running to the front of the store and began searching for a key that would unlock the cabinet.
After thirty seconds of searching, she found the key. She pressed it into the lock and prayed to God it would fit. Luckly, the cabinet swung open. She grabbed the smallest gun that she could find and rushed to the back of the store to find bullets. After stocking up on everything that she needed, she tore open the box containing the gun and loaded it. Just then, she heard the manager swing the front door open.
Before the manager could get a word in, Elaina thanked him and ran out to her car. She hopped into the driver's seat and reached into her pocket for her keys. As she quickly sped away, she looked into her rearview mirror. She almost fainted when she saw her baby sitting there. Before she could even question how she had gotten there, Elaina pulled the car over. She had to hold her baby. She couldn't believe that this nightmare was coming to an end.
'Wait," she thought, "How did Delanie get here.' Just then she heard the trunk door slam open. Out walked Kyle Bucher.
Smiling at her with a smile that sent shivers down her back, Kyle darted at her. Trying to remain calm, she held on to her baby and ran. She had to get back to the hunting store. She ran as fast as she could, but he was gaining on her. Suddenly, Elaina remembered the loaded gun she had in her pocket. As she reached for her gun, Kyle leapt at her. She then heard the gun fire, and after that, everything went blank.
Chapter 5
Elaina opened her eyes. Where was she? Where was Delanie? As she looked around the room, she saw Jason sitting in the corner of the room. He smiled at her and hollered for a nurse.
"Finally! Your awake. You've been out for a week. I was so worried about you!" he told his confuse wife.
"What happened?" she asked, "And where's Delanie?"
"She's with her grandpa. Everything's alright now, thanks to you. This is what happened. You shut Kyle in the leg, but before you fired, he managed to shove you down. You hit your head pretty hard. By the time someone found the two of you, you were both out cold. Now, Kyle's rotting away in jail, and he's never gonna hurt you again.
"It's over. For real?"
"Yup. You saved Delanie," he informed her with a tone of pride.
After that, Elaina was released from the hospital and was allowed to return to her home. When she walked in the door of her house, Avery ran to her and Delanie's little face lit up. Never in her life had she been so happy. Her and her family lived happily for the rest of their days. The end. Imprint

Publication Date: 01-03-2010

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Dedication:
Dedicated to my sisters Jenn and Julia.