Don't Lie to Me (Eva Rae Thomas #1)

by Willow Rose

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates

All the adults thought it was so cool, but the kids not so much. The neighborhood's girls had mocked her and told her she looked fat in the picture and that their parents would never allow them to be on display like that for child-abductors to see and get crazy ideas. "Does your mom want you to be kidnapped?" A girl named Victoria who lived on her street had asked.

Kids are wild lmao

Emotions weren't easy for my mother and, over the years, I had learned to read between the lines to figure out how she really felt. I guess I never really felt like I knew her very well, but it had gotten better. I wanted it to.

"Alex, sweetie, remember to use your inside voice," I said, then added, "Grandma has a hangover and doesn’t like loud noises." "What's a hangover, Grandma?" Alex asked while my mom hissed at me. "Eva Rae Thomas…" she turned and looked at my dad. "Jon, did you hear what she said?"

Lmfaoooooo

My mother was cold and emotionally distant, yes, but I knew she and my dad would always bail me out if they needed to. I was one of the fortunate ones; Patricia wasn't.

The kids use Snapchat more, and we have over one hundred streaks. I send them pictures of myself wearing all these different filters; it's loads of fun. Keeps their old grandma on her toes.

Awwww

One time, a boy from her class, Gareth, had held her down and spat in her mouth, telling her to get used to that feeling since she would grow up to be a whore too. That was the most humiliating thing anyone had ever done to her.

Bro that's insane hf

"I know. The guy is highly delusional and thinks he's on some sort of mission. He might even think he's doing something good, like he's helping the world to be a better place. Those are some of the most dangerous killers you get. They see the flaws, but they also see the solution, and they're determined to let the world know. They want to fix us all."

"I knew he was bad for her, you know?" I nodded. "He just seemed so nice." "They all do," she said. "But she has a talent for finding them in a crowd. It's like she's drawn to them somehow. She only finds the true psychopaths, the ones who have everyone fooled."

I thought I knew him, but apparently, I had no clue.

"We did what we thought was best for you," my dad said. He said the words, but they made no sense to me.

If it wasn't for all the kidnappings lately, I would have let Olivia babysit Alex any day, but I just didn't like leaving them alone on a day like this.

There has been literally so many

I felt so tired, so exhausted.

But as he did that, the boy's mother turned around in a scream, and the bullet hit baby sister instead.

I feel like cops cant shoot someone holding a baby??? What if it went through her

My dad nodded. "I thought I had it all figured out. My mom was the bad guy. She was a drug addict, she was crazy, she couldn't take care of us, and she tried to kidnap us. That's what we were told. That's what we believed."

Oh. My. God. Never once suspected him

My dad would tell us how she would beat us, but I don't remember her hurting my sister or me even a single time. She loved us. She loved me, and I lost all those years. I could have had a mother. My dad and his new wife brainwashed us into thinking she was this terrible person, that she was dangerous for us when she wasn't. It was all a darn lie."

I did suspect this though

But I don't know how you knew Matt had a son?" My dad smiled. "As I told you, I know everything around here.

Mhm

He was still standing next to us, holding the gun between his hands, staring at something behind me. I turned to the other side and spotted Matt, standing in the doorway, holding the smoking gun between his hands.

Maybe im in love with matt

"You think you know people…you live with them for years and years, and…it's all a lie?"

"Leave me out of this," my mom said. "I'll only come if sweet Olivia invites me." "There you go," Olivia said. "Grandma understands how it works."

Lol

He was obviously looking for words. When he didn't find them, he walked up to me, grabbed me, and pulled me into a kiss.

Purr matt!!!

I shrugged and decided he'd probably text me, then went back inside where my mom was watching CSI Miami.

ME LMAOOOO