Undeserving (Novella 1 in the Someone to Love Me trilogy) by Gladys Quintal

Author:Gladys Quintal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, adult
Publisher: Gladys Quintal

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The wake was held at Greg’s parent’s house. It was very kind of them to take that on as they knew my mother was the only family I had. Louise began working hard to find the man that did this to my mother and put him behind bars. I would have laughed if I had any shred of an emotion left inside me. As it was, I felt like an empty shell that couldn’t feel anything. My heart was broken and yet I couldn’t even cry for my poor, dead mother.

Part of me was angry at her for letting this happen and yet here I was in exactly the same position. In a way, I was exactly where she had put me. She led me to believe that the majority of men were violent; only a select few actually wanted to protect women and those men were too far out of reach for me. I looked over at Greg and Trey and thought how different they were, chalk and cheese, really. Could it be possible that the fact they were so different meant that Trey was in that minority of men? Or was I grasping at straws and looking for a hero where none existed?

I’d made my bed and now I had to well and truly lie in it. I was not strong enough to go against Greg and fight for myself. Not yet anyway. Maybe one day I would be able to stand up to him or learn to support myself, but that time was not now. Right now I was vulnerable and weak and needed a man to take care of me. I’d never learned how to do that for myself, just as my mother had never learned and it had gotten her killed. At least I knew better than to get pregnant. At least I could stop this from happening to another member of our family. At least I could stop the cycle at me.

I saw Louise and Trey talking and then they both came over to me.

“How are you doing?” Louise asked, genuinely concerned. “Do you want something to help you sleep?”

I was aching all over and my limbs felt like a dead weight. I needed to sleep but didn’t want to take drugs. I had always hated drugs and never took so much as an aspirin unless I was really in agony.

“No, I will be ok. I am just trying to process it all.”

“I’m so sorry. It is just so awful that she was living that nightmare and you had no idea.”

I gave her a half smile and looked away. Lie after lie; that was what my world was becoming now. Tell one lie and then another one to back that one up. I was sick to death of lying and just wanted to shout that I knew he was hitting her. They all hit her and me as well—it hadn’t just been my dad, but every drop kick man that she had ever looked sideways at.

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