January Snow by Hayden Wand

Author:Hayden Wand [Wand, Hayden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

I hear the Savior say,

“Thy strength indeed is small,

Child of weakness, watch and pray,

Find in Me thine all in all.”

Jesus paid it all,

All to Him I owe;

Sin had left a crimson stain,

He washed it white as snow.

Maybe it was ironic, she thought, that she’d chosen the name Snow. She was far from pure, in nearly every way imaginable. Crimson had stained her life from the moment her thoughtlessness had ended in her mother’s blood pooling in the street.

Chapter 13

When David returned to New York, he attempted to set aside January Snow for the time being. Yet it was a vicious cycle; something would remind him of his brother, which would remind him of January. Something would remind him of January, and it would bring him right back to his brother. He rotated between anger, grief, and frustration. He told himself that if he brought these men to justice—if he finished Jonathon’s work and in turn avenged his murder—that his heart would be satisfied. But in the dark nights alone in his room he wondered if this was truly so.

Burying himself in work seemed the best thing to do. He didn’t have to think so much that way. And he had plenty to do—even if January had yet to help him, he could still go about bringing down the Espositos in his own way.

“Maria Esposito is a…witch?” his mother asked, almost as if she wasn’t sure she’d heard right.

“A medium,” David corrected. “Although to be fair, I’m not entirely sure what all of the differences are.” David had never really gone in for things like that—it seemed like a bunch of hooey to him—but he figured he should look into it.

“She’s very beautiful, though,” his mother said, looking at one of the pictures he had pinned to the wall. “And not very old, either. I suppose that was awkward for January. They can’t be many years apart in age.”

It seemed odd, now, to hear his mother call January by name as if they were acquaintances. David couldn’t imagine what his mother would think of the bitter, prickly girl who’d seemed too eager to convince him of her hopelessness.

“Jonathon wrote that they’ve never gotten along. Maybe that was why.” Something told him there was more to it, though. When it came to bringing down Maria Esposito, he’d have to start somewhere. He hadn’t yet focused too much on her. Instead, he’d been tracking Andrew Warren. It had been easier to start at the end he knew—he was out of his depth when it came to the Espositos, but the Warrens he knew. He could attend their parties, and Warren’s political rallies.

But after meeting January, he was more certain than ever that Maria Esposito was not the type of person he could—or should—ignore.

From what he’d learned from Jon’s investigation, Maria had grown up in a tenement house, where she’d begun to hold séances for a fee before making enough money to move to a slightly larger, more respectable building. That was where Lorenzo Esposito had found her.

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