Runaway (A New Adventure Begins - Star Elite Book 4) by Rebecca King

Author:Rebecca King [King, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2019-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

When they reached the main street, they all slowed their pace.

“We can’t relax yet,” Jasper warned, urging her to keep going.

“Stay away from him.” The men slowed to a steady amble as they studied the young boy now standing boldly in the middle of the street.

“Oscar,” Jasper murmured.

“I am not going to be told what to do by you, Oscar,” Molly retorted firmly. “I don’t give a damn what you think you are doing, we are not going to get involved in it. You can do as you please. Just be warned that Denzel wants to take you back to Aunt Edith.”

Niall opened his mouth to say something only for a warning look from Jasper to silence him again. Jasper knew it was best if Molly dealt with her brother because she knew him better than they did. Besides, Oscar was more likely to trust her than them.

Molly, while relieved that her brother was all right, really couldn’t allow him to go back to Edith’s. At the moment, though, he wouldn’t stop running away long enough for her to talk to him properly.

“Rigley Row is your home now, is it?” she sneered. “God, you are a disgrace, Oscar Egerton. Mother and father would be rolling in their graves if they could see you now, and knew what you had gotten yourself involved in.”

“I didn’t ask for it,” Oscar cried.

“Really? But you left of your own accord,” Molly snapped.

“No, I didn’t,” Oscar protested.

“I know you bought a coach ticket from Mr Bakerson because he told me, so don’t bother to try to lie to me,” Molly retorted.

“You don’t understand,” Oscar snapped.

“You didn’t care about me when you ran away, did you? You didn’t stop to think that I might want to come with you?” Molly snorted. “You just ran because that was what you wanted to do, but that is you all over, isn’t it? Selfish to the core.”

She had no idea where this was coming from. She watched Oscar blink at her but made no attempt to calm herself down as she usually would. After everything she had been through trying to find him, the fear, the worry, the confusion she had endured, Molly felt that she had earnt the right to say what she wanted.

“Why did you go with him? Him of all people,” Molly snapped.

“I didn’t.” Oscar shook his head.

“No. You ran all the way to London by yourself, didn’t you? You not only managed to find yourself some lodgings, but you have found someone to look after you, haven’t you? You are all right then, eh?” Molly’s voice was rife with disgust as her gaze slid over him. He was clean (ish) and had an apple in his hand. While he was thinner, and his face a bit grimy, he was still alive and relatively unharmed, if a little harder than she could ever believe he would be.

“You can do as you please, but I am not going to spend another moment running around these bloody streets,” she snorted.

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