Remember All the Things You Don't Want to Forget: The Prequels: Quinn, Ellis, and Amory (Southern Scandal Book 4) by McBryant Julia

Author:McBryant, Julia [McBryant, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2019-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

Amory wore his full dress uniform, like everyone else at Gage Military Academy. People milled around after the graduation ceremony, drinking punch and eating finger sandwiches and congratulating each other. The Reeds stared each other down. Amory’s father had gone gray in the six years Amory had spent here, home only for the holidays. The littles’ faces, all seven of them, had blurred and shifted as they grew through Christmases. Even his favorite sister Melanie had clouded into a person he hardly recognized. She had taken them all to the field to roll down the hill. His daddy looked Amory up and down. “You still queer?”

Amory held it. He fully understood what it meant but Amory still didn’t lie. “Yessir.”

His father turned and walked away.

His mother, oh god his mother, his mother with her biscuits and her prairie skirts and her soft voice waking him in the morning, his mother who asked him to recite a Bible verse at the breakfast table, his mother who taught him to read and write and who kissed his forehead when she thought he was asleep, his mother reached behind her neck. She unclasped the gold chain of the cross she never, ever took off. God don’t make no mistakes, said the plaque she kept hung in their kitchen.

He either made a mistake with Amory or He didn’t exist.

“Bend your neck down, baby. You got too tall.” Her eyes spilled over. She fastened the chain around his neck. “I was so scared to have a baby. I could hardly take care of my own self and I didn’t know how I’d take care of someone else. And it was a hard birth, Amory, so hard, and it hurt so bad, but suddenly there you were. And you were mine and I was yours and that was the end of everything.” She hugged him tight, tight, as if she’d never let go, but she did, oh god she did, and she walked off after his father.

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