Runaway

Chapter 11 (Part 1)

Author's note:

Hey, guys. Because of the length, I've had to split chapter 11 into two parts. Here's the part 1. Enjoy it.

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Nikki Hamilton wasn't the type of person who could easily be surprised or shocked. Ever since childhood, she was a very reasonable person, with her legs standing firmly on the ground. She believed in herself, her choices and that she would always make the right decision in certain life situations. That was kind of the main reason why she was writing psychological thrillers. Yet...Darnell was the first sign that she wasn't so good at reading people. Nikki had totally misjudged her former fiancé, which had cost her a good part of life invested in wrong things. The result was her coming to the hot tropical place in Florida. On the other hand, the mentioned paradise had brought a big trouble named Daniel Linares. Once again, Nikki found herself in a tangled situation but the question was whether this time she had estimated well the person she allowed to enter inside her walls?

While she was sitting on the lounger, watching Daniel hugging a woman, the copy of his dead girlfriend, her mind was racing around the same question. How could she allow this to happen to her?

Daniel finally moved away from a mysterious woman, telling her something but Nikki couldn't hear him. Then, they both started walking toward her. She stood up, trying to get her shit together.

As Daniel and an unknown woman were approaching, Nikki could see certain differences between Sofia and her and sighed in relief. For a moment, she thought she was losing her mind.

„Nikki..." Daniel called her name. „I want you to meet Patricia Lopez. Sofia's sister."

Sister? This mysterious woman was actually Sofia's sister? That explained the extreme similarity. Nikki wasn't able to compose a normal sentence. Finding that Sofia had so similar sister was shocking.

„Umm..." she muttered but Patricia just stretched her hand toward her, not giving her a time to finish what she wanted to say.

„Nikki Hamilton," she said with a gentle smile. „When I was coming here to greet Dan, I couldn't even dream of finding him in a company of Nikki Hamilton."

Nikki was still silent but she accepted Patricia's stretched hand, shaking it slightly in greeting.

„Considering your state of shock and the fact that Dan has introduced me as Sofia's sister, I guess he has told you everything about her and I guess you've seen her picture at Brian's because in the first few moments you looked like you've seen the ghost. Don't worry...I'm not my sister and I'm over a year older than her. The dead don't return back to life."

At her last statement, the other woman was opening and closing her mouth, not knowing where to start from, while Daniel was just shifting uncomfortably in place.

„What is it? You're both quiet."

Patricia smiled somewhat indifferently, which made Nikki even more confused.

„You know who I am?" she finally asked, making a normal sentence.

Patricia looked at her and nodded.

„How wouldn't I know my sister's favorite writer?"

Her eyes instantly went wide, looking questionably first at Patricia, then at Daniel.

„What?"

Now it was Patricia's turn to be confused.

„You haven't told her?" she asked her, now former brother in law. Daniel looked like he wanted to escape from here.