Forged In Blood by K.J. Dahlen

Author:K.J. Dahlen [Dahlen, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Sazon held her for a long time. Finally, he nuzzled into her neck and whispered, “Are you okay?”

Ana smiled faintly. “I guess so.”

“You guess so?” he queried quietly. “You don’t know?”

Ana shook her head. “I may never be ok again and I will always hate what this man has done to my family but I know it must be faced. I must confront this man and find out why. Why did he have to murder my grandfather?”

“And the daggers?” he asked. “Don’t you want to know why he took the daggers?”

Ana shook her head. “I don’t care about the daggers. They are just material things. They don’t matter.”

Sazon scoffed. “Others might not think so.”

“But they are not me. My grandfather raised Drago and me. He believed in family over everything else. Everything else is just material things, they weren’t important, only family mattered. He would say. ‘Family will be there for you when you were down on your luck or needed a helping hand. Family will protect you from the cold or from the fears that haunted you. Material things are cold and have no soul.’ ”

“Your grandfather sounds like a man I could admire,” Sazon told her. “I was alone in the world until I met the men that became my brothers. We aren’t related by blood but by something more intense. We became blood brothers by choice but your grandfather was right, family does have your back and you can rely on them. How did you come to live with him?”

Ana sighed. “I remember it was the summer. I was seven and Drago was eight. It was another time when rumors of the daggers were going around and there were all these people coming around our house asking questions. To get away from all the crazy, my parents took us to grandfather’s house. They were on their way back home when someone broadsided them. My father was killed outright but my mother lingered long enough for the bastard to ask her some questions. He demanded to know where the daggers were, how he could find them and where her other children were. We have said since then that it was a drunk driver, but it wasn’t. It was someone after the daggers and we could not tell people the truth.”

“Her other children?”

Ana looked at him with more tears in her eyes. “She was carrying our younger brother at the time of the accident. When they heard the sirens coming the bastard took off and told her not to tell anyone he was there. It wasn’t long after that she joined my father in death and my grandfather was left to raise us. But he never let us forget who we were or who our parents were. He buried them in a small cemetery hidden on his property. His father and mother are there as well. Drago and I buried him there too, next to our grandmother.”

“Do you know who the man was that killed your parents?” Sazon asked.

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