Unbound (Bound and Bared Book 1) by Christine Monroe

Author:Christine Monroe [Monroe, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dark Romance
Publisher: Christine Monroe
Published: 2016-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

I had nothing but time. My mind slipping between my past and present like a swinging pendulum, one where every swing hurt more than the last. Once again my life had fallen into the hands of others, I had become nothing more than a voiceless girl drifting between the bitter grasp of hope and fate.

I found myself thinking about that night. The night my father found me. The night my world went from love and safety to the nightmare I now knew so well. For the first nine years of my life, my mother had kept me safe; I never knew how she managed to hide us for so long. Over the years I began to believe the answer was love, love so strong it kept me safe even when the devil himself was chasing us. I had nine wonderful years with her, we spent all those years on the run, but I only knew how much she loved me. I tried never to think of her, the pain still as raw as the day I lost her. My mother's face appeared in my head. My current pain was dredging up the past and bringing it to the surface. I had been caught in the cruel grasp of memory. Its timeless hands were wrapping around me like a vice, cutting off the air in my lungs. Cracking the fragile bones that once protected my heart.

That night my whole world shattered. The sound of the gun had cracked it like glass. The bullet tore through my mother's chest, and my mother became drenched in a grotesque shade of red. My little legs ran as fast as they could, desperate to catch her before she hit the ground. My arms reached out, but I hadn't been fast enough.

My mother hit the ground, and all I could do was grab her hand. I tried to tell her she would be okay, but nothing came out. The last word I heard my mother say was run. I couldn't make my feet move. I stared at my mother's lifeless eyes, praying this had been nothing but a bad dream. I opened my mouth, and I screamed, hoping I would wake up, hoping her arms would wrap around me and tell me none of this wasn't real. A cold hand silenced my scream as hands yanked me backward.

“Shut up you little bitch. Do you know how much time I have spent looking for you? Your whore of a mother thought she could keep you from me. She should have known. I always get what's mine.”

I knew I wasn't going to wake up. The life I had known with my mother was over. My days of being loved and cherished became twisted days filled with horror and pain. I had been taken and thrown into a world of only nightmares. All the years that followed were spent at my father's mercy. No matter what he did, I didn't let my father destroy the pieces of my mother I carried with me.

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