Destiny

By Rae Brandt

Just months before graduating and leaving for college Gia learns of a secret. A secret that her mother has been keeping. Why is she drawn to the mysterious Dustan Anderson? A man that infuriates her to her core. Then tragedy strikes her world and her very life is in danger.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rae Brandt
• Release date: Oct 13, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466047532

Rae Brandt

I reside in Kentucky with my three children. I am the author of Red and Destiny. I love to read and have wrote for my daughter and her friends in the past and my daughter pushed me to publish some of the things I have wrote. At first I was afraid becuase I enjoy writing and didn't want to loose that. I hope everyone enjoys the books as much as I have writing them.

Book preview

Destiny

By Rae Brandt

Copyright by Rae Brandt 2011

Published at Smashwords

This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it or it was not purchased for your use only then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Dedication

I want to thank my daughter for always nagging me and making me promise that when I was done with one of my stories that I would send it in.

Chapter 1

Hay, Gia. What are you doing tonight? Ashley was running up to me in the school parking lot.

I have a five page paper due on Monday. She caught up with me. I gave her a stern look knowing something was coming.

We only have one month till we graduate. You are already in at Columbia with a full scholarship. Stop and smell the roses. She inhaled deeply through her nose as we weaved our way through the cars. You know the weird guy that moved into the Masters ranch? He is throwing a big party tonight. She had that pleading look on her face.

She knew that I didn’t like people judging other people. And that look I hated it also. It was the look she gets when trouble follows. I have to be careful with what I say next, she just might start pouting.

He is not weird. He just has a few select friends he hangs out with. I replied stopping by my blue ford escape.

A few, they all moved to town the same time he did. Rumor has it that they are all family. But who cares it’s a party! Ashley grabbed my arm like she couldn’t contain herself. She was smiling.

Fine but if I get a grade lower than an A, it’s your fault. I will leave when I want to; no begging. I mean it to. Ashley was always saying five more minutes which turned into an hour or two later.

Fine, deal. She had a mischief smile on her face.

I mean it. I will grab you by your blond hair and drag you home. I pointed my finger at her.

I know. Pick me up at eight, mom. Ashley walked away laughing.

Mom, she likes to call me that. Is it wrong to be responsible? No it is not. We have been best friends since eighth grade when she moved here. That’s how long I have been keeping her out of trouble. Ashley is five three and looks like one of the Olson twins with bigger boobs. She maybe blond but has a brain, when she wants to use it. Every guy wants to date her but she has a boyfriend and no one wants to mess with him.

She is dating Shaun the football captain. Shaun is your everyday cute, athletic type that every girl drools over, but me. He is tall, built, dark hair and brown eyes, with flawless skin. They have been dating for about two years now. He gets her into most of her trouble. I go along to keep her on the strait. I wish she would just drop him. She is smart but likes to have too much fun. And Shaun knows how to have fun.

I, on the other hand, haven’t really dated. Not that I can’t get a date when I want to, I just choose not to date. I am five, five and have brown hair that hits my shoulders. I have a tan because I like to be outside. I have a lot of boys ask me but haven’t found ‘the one’ yet, as my grandmother would say. I haven’t really felt the need to date in all reality.

Besides, the boys around here are not that great. They want one thing and one thing only. Although, Dustan has caught my eye a time or two. Those brown eyes of his sometimes look yellow. He is a loner. I wonder why he is throwing a party.

Dustan and some other kids moved here with their families at the beginning of this year. He doesn’t talk to that many people, except the children from the families that moved here. I have seen him in his swim trunks in gym class so I know he is built. You can tell that he worked out. He is about six feet, long shaggy brown hair; his body looked like someone chiseled it out of stone. He was a little tanner than I am but I haven’t seen any tan lines. So he must be an outside person. It’s the mysterious that probably draws me to him. It will be nice to see his home anyway. But again, curiosity killed the cat.

I got home and my mom was singing in the kitchen. I walked through the kitchen door and began to laugh. There was my mom singing Little white church and pouring brownie mix into a pan. She owns a bakery in town. My mom doesn’t look her age. Her hair is longer than mine is, and she had some laugh lines. But she could probably pass as my sister. Except her eyes are brown and mine are blue.

Gia how was your day? She looked away from the pan and smiled at me.

Fine, Ashley pushed me into going to a party tonight. I sat my books down on the table.

Really who is having it tonight? Do you want to take some brownies? She bent down to put the pan into the oven. My mom wasn’t worried about the party because we live in a small town and everyone knows everyone. That’s why when the Anderson’s and the others that followed are the talk of the town.

No brownies. It’s at the old Masters ranch. I took a seat at the table and started playing with the binding on one of the books.

Ooh. Out in the middle of nowhere, with the mysterious Anderson clan. She leaned on the counter and crossed her arms.

Mom, they are people just like us. God, hasn’t anyone found anything else to talk about? I rolled my eyes in discuss.

"I