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Chapter 55: The Escape Plan.
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The biker who broke fate Chapter 98: Gerald
The neighbour's name was Gerald.He lived two doors down, retired, spent a lot of time at his front window or out front doing things that didn't really need doing just so he could be where he could see the street.He was friendly enough. Always said good morning. Always commented on Nora when he saw her. Told Maya once that they'd been a good addition to the road which Maya took as a compliment even though the way he said it suggested he'd had opinions about previous additions.But Gerald asked questions.Not rude ones. Just steady. Every conversation had at least one slipped in natural and easy to miss if you weren't paying attention.Where did you say you were from again?And what did you do before you moved here?Family nearby is it.Maya answered everything with the versions of the truth that Webb had helped them build. Solid answers, nothing that fell apart under pressure, history that held up if anyone looked.But Gerald kept asking and Maya kept noticing and after a while the n
The biker who broke fate Chapter 97: Two And A Half
Nora at two and a half was a whole personality in a small body.She had opinions about everything. Which cup she drank from, which shoes went on first, whether the butter on her toast went all the way to the edges which it always had to or there would be consequences. She said no the way some people said hello, automatically and without much thought, and she said why after everything Dominic told her until he ran out of answers and had to make things up."Why is the sky blue," Nora said one morning at breakfast."Because it reflects the sea," Dominic said.Maya looked at him over her cup."Why," Nora said."Because they made a deal a long time ago," Dominic said.Maya put her cup down. "Don't," she said."Why did they make a deal," Nora said."Because they were friends," Dominic said."Why," Nora said."Eat your toast," Maya said.Nora picked up her toast and looked at the edge of it. "The butter didn't go all the way," she said.Maya took the toast and buttered the edge and gave it b
The biker who broke fate Chapter 96: Small and Right
They didn't want anything big.Talked about it one evening after Nora went down, sitting on the floor in the front room because they still hadn't got round to buying a sofa, and both of them said the same thing at the same time without planning to.Small, Maya said.Small, Dominic said.They looked at each other and that was the whole conversation.It happened on a Saturday in spring.Registry office in town, the small one on the high street with the blue door that Maya had walked past a dozen times since they moved and always looked at without letting herself think too much about it.Four people there besides them and Nora.Maya's mother in the green coat, same one, probably always the same one.Ray and Marta who had driven two hours and arrived the night before and slept in the spare room and Marta had been up at six making breakfast for everyone.And Alice, who Maya had called on a feeling and who had driven over and stood in the registry office in a good blouse looking like she wa
The biker who broke fate Chapter 95: Sentenced
The letter came on a Thursday.Plain envelope, no return address, just their names on the front in print. Maya picked it up off the mat in the morning and looked at it and knew from the way it felt in her hand that it was from Webb.She put it on the kitchen table and left it there.Made tea. Fed Nora. Put a wash on. Came back and looked at it again.Picked it up and opened it.One page. Webb's writing, short and straight the way he was in person.She read it once then read it again then put it down flat on the table.Dominic came downstairs in his work clothes, new job starting early, grabbed his jacket off the hook."There's a letter," Maya said.He stopped and looked at her face then at the letter on the table. Came over and picked it up and read it standing there.She watched him read it.He put it down and stood there a moment."Brent," he said."Twenty two years," Maya said. "The man above him got more."Dominic stood very still."It's done," Maya said. "Webb says it's fully don
The biker who broke fate Chapter 94: Full Circle
Maya cleaned the house the day before they came.Not because it was dirty. It wasn't. She just needed something to do with her hands and cleaning gave her that. Dominic watched her from the doorway the same way he watched her the morning her mother came."They're not coming to inspect the house," he said."I know that," Maya said."So why are you scrubbing the skirting boards," he said."Because they need scrubbing," Maya said.He left her to it.Ray's car pulled up at eleven on a Saturday morning three weeks after they moved in.Maya was at the window and saw it and called Dominic and they both went to the door together.Ray got out first. Looked at the house from the pavement. Took it in slow the way he took everything in. Then he looked at Maya and Dominic in the doorway and something moved across his face that he didn't try to hide.Marta got out the other side carrying two bags and looked up at the house and nodded like it was exactly what she expected and she was satisfied with
The biker who broke fate Chapter 93: Green Coat
They found a place two weeks later.Small town, not too big and not too far from anywhere. Three bedroom house on a quiet road with a garden out back that needed work but had good bones. Proper kitchen. A school seven minutes walk away that Maya timed herself on the first day.They signed the lease with their real names and it felt strange and right at the same time.First night in the house they had no furniture except an air mattress and the moses basket and a lamp they bought from a shop on the way. Sat on the floor eating takeaway from the boxes with Nora between them looking up at the ceiling of her first real home."She looks like she approves," Maya said."She looks like she has no idea where she is," Dominic said."Same thing at this age," Maya said.They slept on the air mattress that night all three of them and it was the best sleep either of them had in over a year.Maya called her mother the morning after they moved in."We're somewhere," Maya said. "Properly somewhere. A
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