When Mercy Ends by Ella Parks

Author:Ella Parks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-06-11T18:53:56+00:00

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Molly

I watched the agony in the eyes of the woman that had not only saved my life but changed it in ways I could never imagine. She had taken me in when I was sick and hungry. She had listened to me crying in fright and horror. She had been so good to me and I loved her. I also loved her son, the one laying shot, the one causing her agony and mine, but she didn’t know I loved him, no one did. I couldn’t tell anyone how I felt because he was in love with someone else, so I kept silent about my love for him.

She had fallen off the porch in her haste to get to him as he lay face down, still, there on the ground, blood seeping from the hole the bullet had opened. Her leg was cut badly. I knew it needed stitches, but all the doctors were fighting to save Mark’s life. Billy and I were trying to get her to lay back, so I could clean the cut, but she didn’t seem to understand. Her eyes were wide, almost unseeing they were so full of horror. Her hair had fallen loose, tumbling black across the bed. Billy leaned into her, whispering soft words I couldn’t understand and didn’t need to, touching her trying to bring her back to some kind of reason, trying to bring her back away from her wide- eyed blank stare. Her leg had to be hurting terribly but she never flinched as I cleaned it the best I could, then pulling the torn tissue as close together as I could get it, knowing it would leave a terrible scar. I had just gotten it wrapped and Billy had brought her back to some saner state of reason when the sheriff came to the door with BJ. They had been rough with him, that was easy enough to see, and she surprised me by her quick movements to protect BJ from another blow to his head. I watched her lean inward BJ, I could tell she whispered something to him, and I watched his lips move as he answered but none of us could hear what was being said. Then she lied to the sheriff, everyone in the room knew she was lying but Billy and I were ready to support her lie, making it our lie also. Billy and I watched her even in her grief setting BJ free and sending him home. I didn’t know if she believed BJ was innocent of the shooting or just couldn’t stand to see her son’s half -brother hurt. I thought about how protective she was of her loved ones and realized she must have believed in his innocence. As I watched her facing the sheriff with him knowing as well as we all did she was lying ,but she stood there steady as she could with her cut leg and broken heart I thought about the day she had stood

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