Embraced (Eternal Balance) by Jus Accardo

Author:Jus Accardo [Accardo, Jus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entangled: Embrace
Published: 2015-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Jax

“Sammy?” I tried again. No answer. If anything had happened to her, I would rip that bastard’s wings out feather by feather, then cram them up his ass one at a time.

Everything had gone dark, and when I was able to see again, I was in an unfamiliar living room. There were bright red flowers on all the tables and pictures on the mantel. I picked up the one closest to the edge. A blond woman and bald man, both smiling. I’d never seen them before. I set it down and moved to the next. The same couple, still smiling, only in addition there was a small dark-haired girl. Like them she was smiling, but there was a haunted look in her large brown eyes. I would have known it anywhere.

I would have known her anywhere.

In the picture, Sam was several years younger than when I met her. Four, maybe five years old. I didn’t know much about her parents, but seeing them together in the picture, I was struck by the lack of resemblance. From the color of her hair to the shape of her face, there was nothing similar.

“What are we supposed to do, Toni?” a man’s voice said.

I turned toward the sound and found that I was no longer alone. The same couple from the pictures now sat side by side on the couch behind me.

“Nothing, Paul,” the woman said. Her eyes were red-rimmed and swollen. “I had the lawyer double check the paper work. It’s ironclad. There’s nothing they can do to take her.”

The man wasn’t placated. He stood and began pacing, fingers knotted and fists shaking. “I’ll kill them, Toni. If they come and try to take her back, I’ll—”

“Samantha is ours,” the woman insisted with conviction. The ferocity in her voice was unmistakable. “No court is going to take her away from us and give her back to those—those horrible people.”

Sam had been adopted? Not that it mattered. Chase and I had been adopted. It never meant anything more than someone out there had cared enough to want us. To want me. Our own parents, the little I remembered about them, had been hard on me. My father, especially. I never blamed him. Somehow he’d known what I was from the start, exactly what I would become. He’d taught me to hate myself before I even truly understood what that meant.

Sam would feel the same way I did. The Merricks had wanted her. Even if I’d known nothing about them from Sam’s perspective, I could see it in their eyes now. The man spoke the truth. He’d kill anyone who tried to take his child. And the woman, Toni, would defend her with the last breath in her body.

The scene changed. It was the same house, but the couple was nowhere in sight. The furniture was different, too. Newer. It was still night, and by the door, two tall figures crept toward the stairs.

I moved to follow, but something came out of the

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