Seeds of Malice: A Psychic Vision Novel (Psychic Visions Book 11) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, suspense
ISBN: 9781773360157
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2017-07-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16

She’d wondered how long it would take him to realize what she’d been through. Not that he knew everything, but at least he knew something now. He’d get up and walk away. And he’d never come back.

She watched him take the first few steps, sorrow clearly delineated on his features. His hands fisted, his arms and back rigid. She knew how he felt. But she always had anger for her family. When he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her into his arms, damn near crushing her against him, she was slow to react. She wasn’t sure why he was even still in the room. She felt his chest shake, his shoulders sagging, his chin dropping on top of her head. She knew she was feeling something she didn’t understand and couldn’t really expect to understand. It was so foreign to her. She slowly raised her arms and wrapped them around him. That’s when she realized his chest, his whole body shook. She squeezed her arms tight around him and held him close. “It’s okay. It’s all right.”

He stepped back ever-so-slightly so he could look at her.

She saw the moistness in his eyes, which astonished, shocked and deeply touched her. She reached up to touch a tear just sitting and ready to drop. “It’s okay. It was a long time ago.”

He shook his head. “This will never be a long time ago. This is something you live and breathe every day.”

She gave him a lopsided grin. “Yeah, precisely. This was my torture. This was my world. It was my shame.”

Her voice fell, and she cast her eyes to the floor. The child in her knew she was to blame for this. Her parents had told her often enough. As an adult, she tried to rationalize it away, but she’d thought that, if she’d done better, they wouldn’t have done this. If she’d just given them the answers they wanted, the various times they’d asked, they would have let her go.

They said they would. It had taken their deaths for her to realize they never planned to let her go—ever.

London grabbed her chin, tilting it up. “This is not your fault. You were not to blame for this. You are not to be ashamed of this. The people who did this to you are the ones to blame. They are the ones who didn’t deserve to have you. They should be ashamed for having done this to a child. To their child.” He twisted his head to look at the corner where her bed was. “How long were you here?”

“Years.”

He stared at her in shock. “Did you go to school?”

She nodded. “College. I went to college.”

“Primary school, secondary school or high school?”

She shook her head. “I was homeschooled here in this room. I finished all my schooling before I was twelve. I did my first degree online. I started my second degree and finished it in person.”

“Did they let you out? Did they take you to restaurants or parks or to attend plays or anything?”

She gave a half smile.

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