Four Crows by Lily White

Author:Lily White [White, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-27T18:30:00+00:00

This wasn’t right.

In fact, this was all incredibly wrong.

With my hand over Maggie’s mouth, I looked down into a face that stared back at me with a mix of fear, anger and confusion behind eyes of jade green. She fought against my hold when I didn’t immediately speak, but I held onto her, refusing to give her any leeway while I was desperate to decide what I would do.

The last thing I wanted was for Maggie to witness her family die. She didn’t need that memory following her through life like a thousand pound weight slung over her shoulders. I didn’t want her waking up screaming in the middle of the night, or being stalked by the guilt of being unable to save them while she tried to pick the pieces up and put them back together for her own life.

The road to Hell truly is paved with good intentions, it seemed.

“You shouldn’t be here, Maggie. I told you to stay at that farm until I came to you. I told you to wait for me where you’d be safe.”

Pain shot along my hand, Maggie’s teeth firmly planted in the skin of my palm. Ripping my hand free, I glared down at her, anger swelling inside me and the first trace of concern. In this moment, she was making a choice, and what side she chose would decide whether she lived or died. I never wanted to hurt her, but I remembered my promise to myself that I would if she tried to get in my way.

“Tell me why, Elliot? I went to the damn farm like you asked, but…”

“But?”

When she stopped talking, I knew there was more to the story she was telling me. Behind her, Jonah and his boys were shouting her name, however she didn’t blink an eye in response. Her focus was entirely on me, her eyes asking a million questions that she hadn’t yet voiced.

“Come with me, Elliot. Let’s get in your truck and leave right now. I’ll marry you. I’ll run away with you and never look back. Just let my family go and –“

“And what? Allow them to kill the woman they were busy raping when I ran up here? Have you not seen her yet?”

My fist wrapped into her hair, and I twisted her head down to look at the poor woman who lay unconscious in the dirt. I’d reacted before realizing that the force I used on Maggie would hurt her, but I’d lost all sense of control the minute I’d crossed the fields to play out the vengeance I’d sought against the Crows.

I was a man possessed. Possessed with rage, with indignity, with hatred and pain. There was nothing that could stand in my way tonight, not even the beautiful girl who hadn’t asked to be abused her entire life. I couldn’t feel sorry for her, not now that she’d threatened to prevent everything I’d waited to do to the bastards who’d stolen my heart away from me fourteen long years before this moment.

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