Children of Redemption by J. J. McAvoy

Author:J. J. McAvoy [McAvoy, J. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary, Fiction, Thrillers, crime, suspense, Romance
ISBN: 9781641970129
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2018-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

“The less you reveal

the more people can wonder.”

~ Emma Watson

HELEN

Buzz.

Buzz.

“Hello?” I muttered into the line, still not opening my eyes.

“Wake up. I’m mad at you.”

I didn’t need to open my eyes to know who it was. “Dona, I have a really bad hangover, can you call back—”

“You are aware it is improper to not answer the phone when a princess of a foreign nation is calling you, right?” she asked, obviously not giving a damn about the fact that it felt like my brain was trying to escape out of my damn ears.

Sighing, I turned over on the couch and brushed my hair out of my face. “Last I checked you weren’t married, only living in absolute sin. Therefore, I’m not being improper by screening your calls.”

“Do I look like an idiot to you? I made him sign the marriage license before I got off the damn plane.”

It’s too early!

“Donatella, you’re supposed to marry the handsome prince after you kill the wicked witch not before,” I said to her. Then again, she was hell bent on breaking all the rules. God only knows how she pulled that off. Princes had rules, didn’t they?

“Says who? Disney?” She gave a very un-princess-like grunt. “If the handsome prince needs my help and wants to screw me while he gets said help, then handsome prince needs to be my legal husband because there is no way in hell I’m fighting for a future possibility and not a sure thing.”

I frowned at that. “You could have at least done a video call, so I could have seen. I swear everyone is doing this just to stop me and my mom from planning your wedding.”

“Oh, I’m still having a massive wedding. It hasn’t leaked here that we are already married. The wicked witch has her hands in the media here. So as long as you’re still my family, you’ll be planning my wedding.”

“What does that mean?”

Dona was always clear with her words. She didn’t throw cryptic messages out there without a reason.

“A little birdy told me you ran away from home.”

I rolled my eyes, rolling back onto my side. “Let me guess, Nana.”

“Who else? It isn’t so funny when she’s talking about you, now is it.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “I didn’t run away from home. Okay, I did run, but only because I just needed…I needed space.”

“You hate space, Helen.”

“I do not hate—”

“You hate space so much you cried when your parents told you that you couldn’t sleep in their bed anymore…so you started to sleep in mine. When I left for school, you slept in anyone else’s bed but your own—”

“Okay, I fucking hate space! I still needed time to think.” Jesus Christ, give me a break.

“You think best when you’re talking to people, which is why you hate space—”

“Wow, you must be super bored if you’re picking on me this much.” There was a long pause. I grinned. “Do you miss us, princess?”

“In all honestly, no.” she said, her voice much more serious and cold…a.

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