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    Blood Ties
    Blood Ties
    Blood Ties
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    Blood Ties

    By Cecelia Davis

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    Blood Ties- a powerful, thrilling short story like none you've ever read. The main character, CC, will mesmerize you; and his friend Kari will make you love her.
    Get ready to have the ride of your life in this young adult thriller!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCecelia Davis
    Release dateJun 3, 2020
    ISBN9780463195277
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      Blood Ties - Cecelia Davis

      Blood Ties

      Cecelia Davis

      Published by Around the Loop Designs at Smashwords

      Copyright 2020 Cecelia Davis

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be

      reproduced in any form or by any electronic or

      mechanical means, including information storage

      and retrieval systems, without written permission

      from the publisher or author, except in the case of

      a reviewer, who may quote brief passages

      embodied in critical articles or in a review.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      About the Author

      Contact the Author

      You’ve heard it said many times that there’s a struggle between good and evil, and for as long as I can remember, there was a constant struggle, a constant confusion inside of me and now it all makes sense…

      Where shall I begin?

      Chapter 1

      The Beginning

      I got another one; that makes three. The number of birds I shot that day I was about 7. Mrs Dolly down the street told me stop it! and with a loud voice said, If you are not going to eat them, it’s a sin to kill them!

      Sin! What's that? I thought. All I knew is it made me feel good and powerful to kill them. I was such a carefree kid, whatever I wanted to do, I did and I was out of control. One day my mom saw me trying to hurt a cat and she stopped me, she pulled me close and said,CC oh, I love you and it's going to be different for you. I looked up at her very puzzled, and said, What do you mean, Mom?

      But she did not say anything. she just gave me a kiss and let me go. I remember my mom praying quietly in her room and sometimes she would wipe tears from her eyes, and now looking back at that, seemingly gesture, I am convinced that she was waging war on a spiritual battlefield, fighting for my very soul. And sadly, she did this as a single mom because I never knew my father. She told me he died before I was born and that was true, but there was a secret and she was not ready to reveal it. Even though she tried to keep it within, it was beginning to reveal itself to me in a variety of destructive ways.

      One day I got into a fight with someone. His name I do not even remember; he said something about my mom and that made me furious. I did not want anyone to ever say the word mom to me because I loved her so much. I remember I hit him in the face and the blood quickly flowed out of his nose, but that was not enough for me. The sight of blood seemed to give me power. Power to do more, to hurt more, so I picked up a bat and began hitting him with that. The look in his eyes was the look of fear. He screamed out in pain but I continued my assault. All of a sudden, I heard Mrs Dolly down the street screaming at me to stop-and telling me she was going to get my mom. When she said that, I quickly dropped the bat and backed away. Wow, I truly believe that if she had not been the nosy neighbor I knew her to be all my life, I really would have hurt him and maybe even ... well, let's not go there.

      For as long as I can remember the strange urges to do harm to something or someone has been a part of me and I am sure that this is why I am always alone, never able to fit into any group. No one seemed to understand me or maybe it was me that understood no one. As time went on, the power that I felt from inflicting pain on unsuspecting dogs and cats and the occasional human target, continued to give me strength and I began to feel a change coming. The urge to do more, to hurt more became overwhelming and I was so caught up, so consumed in my daydreams that I had no idea my daydreams were about to become my worst nightmares.

      One night as I was drifting to sleep I began to dream and I saw a beautiful white cloud floating across a beautiful blue sky. I thought to myself, "Wow! What a beautiful cloud - so quiet, so pretty..." - and all of a sudden that beautiful blue sky turned very dark and that very white cloud was now reduced to this dirty black, smoky looking thing. Oh, and the peace I felt was gone. I woke up sweating and thinking to myself, what kind of dream was this and what did it all mean? Little did I know, my life as I knew it was about to take a drastic turn. Day after day, I began to do things that made no sense to me. I would go out into the night and it seemed as though I was invisible, lurking in the shadows of darkness.

      Most sane people are in the safety of their homes at that time of night, but as for me that was when the strange thoughts and unsettling urges would come.

      On one particular night I see an old man sitting on a park bench, as I am standing there looking at the strange scene. Strange, because this man had no idea I was there. Suddenly I heard an eerie voice telling me to hit him. I turned, thinking someone was behind me. The voice was so clear. It told me to hit him and the thought of doing something like that made my heart skip a beat and it made me shake. You know you want to, the voice said. No I can't, I said to myself. It wouldn't be right. And then it told me to look to my left, See that piece of wood laying there? Just pick it up and quietly walk over and hit him. He won't know it was you."

      But I don't know, thinking to myself, and I might kill him. Yes. Kill him! The voice told me and even though I did not want to, I felt myself going in the direction of the wood. It felt as if someone was guiding me and I was scared, but I found myself picking it up anyway. It felt powerful to have life and death in my control. I felt like the angel of death and now as I quietly walked in the direction of the old man, the urge became so overwhelming that it actually scared me. Just thinking about it... but not enough to make me turn away, as I quietly

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