Hansel 1-4: The Complete Series by Ella James

Author:Ella James [James, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Amazon: B014EMR548
Publisher: Barkley's Books
Published: 2015-08-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Lucas

Fourteen Years Ago

I blink at the red lips moving in front of me. Then I tug my gaze away from her and look at the snowy peaks behind her.

Huh. We’re in the mountains.

Her hand closes around my forearm and she nods at the looming house behind her. “Come on out, dear boy.”

I look down at myself. At the gauze around my wrist. When they pushed me into the back of her SUV, someone was too rough. I can see a spot of blood, feel the tugging pain of fucked up stitches.

Oops.

“Come on out,” she coos. “I’ll help you.” She holds her hands out, and I fumble out on my own, just so she doesn’t fucking touch me.

As I stand there underneath the giant Christmas-looking trees, she moves to stand right by me.

“You’re my new son.” Her mouth quirks up into something that’s both smile and not. “I know all about your past. The lack of a mother.”

Pain shoots through me, cracking the wall of ice that’s formed around my chest. I want to glare at her, but I’m too tired. Every part of me, so tired.

“Poor boy.” She wraps an arm around my back. “The only mother who wanted you is dead now. That must really hurt.”

“I killed her,” I say woodenly.

She laughs, a quiet, lilting sound that seems to climb toward the flat gray sky. “You sound like a very broken boy.”

I take a step away from her, but she’s faster, and she clearly cares more.

She places her hand over the bandage on my wrist and squeezes—hard enough to hurt.

“I think I’m going to call you Hansel, my dear boy. You can call me Mother Goose.”

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