Born of No Woman by Franck Bouysse

Author:Franck Bouysse [Bouysse, Franck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

I heard the dogs barking.

He had released them without telling me.

That was unusual.

I went up the path as fast as I could.

When I reached the kennel, he was already on Hermes.

It looked like he was floating over the excited pack.

He leaned over to let the dogs sniff something.

The dogs raced toward the gate in a fury.

He set out after them swaying pathetically.

I ran to the house to find out what was about.

The queen mother was alone in the dining room, hands on the back of a chair, as if she were waiting for me.

There was no noise in the kitchen.

I asked her why he was going on a hunt without telling me.

She looked up at the ceiling saying it didn’t concern me.

She must have thought her answer would satisfy me and that I would leave, but I insisted on knowing what was happening.

I asked where Rose was.

Her face twisted up.

Her eyes were like two pellets of buckshot set on dirty cotton.

Her hands tensed on the chair and her mouth began to spit out a rant she must have been rehearsing since I was born.

“What is it you think? That I kept quiet, that I closed my eyes to my husband’s doings just like that, without getting something out of it? What did you think, you poor fool? That I was going to agree to let you set a single foot in this house out of the kindness of my heart? Of course not, I have no respect for what you are. You mean nothing to me, nothing, you hear me? You’re just the role you play, no more, no less. I fought my whole life so that this family would continue…Family…that’s what’s most important. Preserve the family at all costs, preserve the name we carry, it’s the name that lives on. But to understand that, you need to be built on solid foundations, an irrevocable bloodline, not some vulgar construction erected on stilts in the name of who knows what chance misfortune, from an urge quenched on a night of heavy drinking between the thighs of the whore that was your mother. So stick to what we tell you, to what you know how to do. That’s your life, and don’t think that it will ever be more than the will of the devil carried out before the eyes of God. Everything will end after you, nothing will remain, not your name, not your memory. Nothing, I’m telling you. It’s your downfall but certainly also your luck to have nothing lasting to defend, whereas I, I have to fight day after day so that nothing ends, so that everything remains, that essential everything that makes it so that you’re nothing and we’re everything. You don’t have a choice, you never had one and you never will. You’ll stay in your place if you don’t want her to suffer more because of you. How could you think a half-breed like you could pass down your blood, and that anything but a monstrosity would come out of it one day? You poor fool.

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