Missing (The Brannock Siblings Book 3) by Jessica Wilde

Author:Jessica Wilde
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

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"I don't have an answer for you, son. I'm sorry."

A wave of disappointment crashed through me even though I already knew I wouldn't get a straight answer from him. How could I when the questions were so jumbled together and I had no idea what ones I needed answered in the first place?

"Maybe I just need to move on, be grateful for the friendship I have with her and not push it any further. At least until I can sort myself out."

"Maybe," he replied. "Or maybe you just need to make a decision and stick with it for good. If she means that much to you, son, she's worth whatever battle you have to fight to keep her, even if that battle is against her. Don't make the mistake of taking away her choices either. If she wants a life with you, let her decide if she can handle the life you can give her."

"Is that what Mom did? Did she even know she would be able to handle it?"

A chuckle came over the line before he said, "I didn't give her the choice. I wanted her and there was no way I was letting her go. I told her if it ended up that she couldn't deal with my job, then I would find another one. Over the years, we both had to learn to adapt. If I could do it again, though, I would probably ask her what she wanted." He outright laughed before he added, "Still wouldn't have let her argue, though."

Hearing him talk about my mom was always a bittersweet moment. Liam Brannock wasn't the most sensitive man with his sons, but when it came to his wife, he could only be described as reverent.

"Your mother and I had a rough start. You all know the short version of how we met, but there was a lot more to it." He cleared his throat before he continued. "She was engaged to an evil man and it's a damn miracle she ended up in Ireland at all. The engagement wasn't necessarily arranged, but her parents put a lot of pressure on her and the little shit for a man manipulated them every step of the way. He had hit her shortly after they got engaged and she tried to leave him, fought back, did whatever she could to get away, but it didn't work."

I had never heard this story before and the thought of my mother being treated so horribly made my chest burn with rage. My grip on the phone tightened until the plastic started to creak.

"He beat her again for fighting back, thought he needed to force her into submission. Controlled when she went out with friends, what she bought, what she ate. Her parents were completely oblivious and she could never sit down and talk to them because he was always around. She realized that the only way to survive it was to comply. She knew she would live the rest of her life

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