Life Death And Expiration Dates – Michelle Hair

No.” “Buying drugs?” “No!” “Are you doing drugs?” “What’s with the inquisition? NO, NO, NO!” I hustled her out of the room. “It’s just some money to buy new speakers for my car.” She groaned, retreating down the hallway. “That car is going to be a money pit.” I closed the door and fell back on the bed in a rush of breath. That was too close! I felt bad lying to her, but the truth was so much worse.

How many lies would I tell before this was all over? OceanofPDF.com Chapter 20 Ava ean’s phone lay face up on the dash of his car like a ticking time bomb. It was 10:22 on Friday night. We waited for Porter’s text with the engine running at a gas station in the middle of North Van. With Sean’s hand gripping the gear stick and Will staring at the phone from the front seat, they both looked ready to race away. With Thea away for a weekend getaway, I should feel thrilled, but my stomach knotted with dread about After Dark.

The phone dinged and we all jumped. “What does it say?” Will asked, squinting at the screen. “It looks like directions. Somewhere close to Lower Level Road,” Sean pushed the phone at Will. Two cars down, a door slammed and a white jeep peeled out of the parking lot. Was this someone else on their way to illegal racing? “Oh, that’s in the port shipping district.” Will opened the map on the phone and zoomed in to the location.

“That’s an interesting choice. That section is gated and only accessible to people working in the area.” He passed the phone into the backseat so I could take a closer look. “There was an article in the Vancouver Sun a few years back talking about the large number of Hell’s Angels working for the Vancouver Port Authority. They were using their security clearance and union ties to hide smuggling operations.” He raised an eyebrow at Sean. “Maybe the Brotherhood has some connections like that in the North Van port community.”

“We’ll know soon enough,” Sean said, a wide grin splitting his face. His body vibrated with energy, like an elastic stretched taut, ready for release. He spun the tires, eager to get on the road. Will and I scrambled for our seat belts. I returned the phone to Will to navigate and frowned at Sean. “You’re seriously pumped, aren’t you? This isn’t just some weird coping mechanism.” Here we were packing lies and teetering on the edge of something dark and definitely dangerous, but Sean was fearless.

Excited, even. “Don’t you feel that? The energy pulsing in your limbs?” His eyes shone wistfully in the rearview. “It’s been a while since I felt like this.

Copyright © 2025 by Michelle Hair. All rights reserved. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. Published in paperback and ebook by Teal Sunset Press West Kelowna, BC, Canada Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro, Corbel Bold, & Ink Free Interior Design by Tigerpetal Press Cover Design by Sofía Sanz First Edition ISBN: 978-1-0693142-0-8 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-0693142-1-5 (ebook) For my Shirley, who always fought for family and taught me to dream big.

OceanofPDF.com 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 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Acknowledgements About the Author OceanofPDF.com I Chapter 1 Sean knew we wouldn’t die in that cab.

Even as the human tornado driving us clipped Mr. Lu’s recycling bin and cut off a transport truck in a barrage of horn blasts, I lounged with my eyes closed. Aunt Jody didn’t share my confidence. She gripped the grab handle and jammed her foot on an imaginary brake pedal. When we finally hit the curb and settled on the sidewalk outside of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Aunt Jody burst from the door. “I don’t know how you slept through that hell-ride,” she seethed at me, leaning back in to swipe her credit card.

She banged on the glass partition. “Hey, buddy. You drive like a lunatic. Not cool.” I stacked our luggage on a cart. “I need to drop my snowboard off at the oversized baggage before security,” I said, tapping my case. Aunt Jody checked her phone, then sped up. “We need to hurry.” She was somewhere between the “I’m not panicked” jog, and the “Hold the plane!”

sprint. Lagging behind, I spotted an exotic location on the departures screen. My mouth watered, hungry for an adventure. Anything but this. “There’s a later flight to Varadero. I could teach you to scuba dive.” “We’ve been over this, Sean.

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