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PROLOGUE
“Iwant you home by eleven!”
Lincoln Harrington was sitting in the passenger seat of his girlfriend’s Mustang. Lara’s grandparents had given it to her for her sixteenth birthday two years ago. Lara was eighteen. A few months older than him. He didn’t care all that much.
He felt he was the luckiest dude in the school dating this hot chick that most wanted and she wouldn’t give the time of day to anyone but him.
“Sure!” Lara yelled back and she slid into the car. “Not likely. They are so controlling. I can’t wait until we graduate in two months and then I’m out of here.”
“Have you told them yet you aren’t going to college?” he asked.
Lara’s parents had her on a short leash most of her life. At least from what she’d said. It wasn’t until recently that her mother convinced her father to let her have some freedom since she’d be going off to college soon.
Or so they thought. Again, words from Lara’s mouth.
“No,” Lara said. “I’ve got time before they have to put the money down. I’m getting away from here and them. Then it’s just the two of us and no one to answer to.”
He leaned over and kissed her while she started the engine and it roared to life.
The muscle car had been a huge argument in Lara’s family. She’d told him all about it. Repeatedly in the eight months they’d been dating.
Lara’s father thought it was too dangerous. Lara’s mother told her father to lighten up, you only lived once.
Lincoln was going with the second, but he had to admit that Lara was a little reckless at times. More than he was, and for a guy entering the Air Force with the goal of being a fighter pilot, that was saying something.
“I want you with me,” he said. His heart had been long gone the minute he found out she was a virgin. “But it won’t be right away. I’ve got to go through basic training, then figure out where I’ll end up. You know you can’t live with me unless we are married.”
“I want to get married,” Lara said excitedly. “You can take me away from here and care for me right?”
“Always,” he said. Though he had doubts he could give her the life she was used to. She insisted it wasn’t a big deal, but her words and her actions never lined up.
He was middle class. His parents had stable jobs and they had a decent well-maintained house.
He’d never wanted for much in his life, but it’s not like his parents bought him a car for his sixteenth birthday.
He had a job and he put half in and his parents put the other four thousand in. He thought it was awesome, but it wasn’t the car he was riding in now and never would be.
Lara’s parents made it a point to rub that in their daughter’s face all the time too.
That Lincoln wouldn’t or couldn’t give her what she deserved and that she could do so much better.
He’d overheard her parents talking one day that she’d find someone better suited for her when she was in college.
She argued that she loved him and didn’t care about those things.
Yet they never went places in his car and she always was asking him to take her out, him using most of his paycheck on that rather than putting money away.
“Then that is all I care about,” Lara said. She hit the gas hard when the light turned green and he was sucked into the seat.
“What are you going to do when I’m in training?” he asked
Every time he brought this up she’d avoid answering. He’d always been a man with a plan. He couldn’t live by the seat of his pants. It just wasn’t his way.
Could be he didn’t have anything to fall back on like Lara did.
“I’ll figure it out,” she said. “If I have to start college for a semester, I’ll do it. Doesn’t mean I have to finish.”
He cringed. He didn’t care how much money her parents had, that was just wasteful to him.
