If There Be Thorns by V.C. Andrews

Author:V.C. Andrews [Andrews, V.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Horror Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Family Secrets, Suspense Fiction, Adopted Children
ISBN: 9780671729455
Google: OmXpszVOXPAC
Amazon: 0671729454
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 1981-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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afraid, I raced up to where Dad held her in his arms while ambulance men in white suite were feeling her legs to find out if one or both might be broken.

"<3ais, did I do all right?" she was asking, though pain had made her face very pale. "I didn't really louse up the show, did I? You did see Jory and I in owpas de deux?" i- :-- 11 ^ '--.. - . I - . ' ; ^'Yes, yes," he said, kissing her face all over and looking so tender as he helped aft her onto a stretcher.

"You and Jory were magnificent. I've never seen you dance better--^ttdJdry was briBiaat."

"And this time I didn't have to bleedon my Jeet"

she whispered before she closed her eyes wearily, "I only had to break a leg."

What she said didn't make much sense. I turned my thoughtsto the look oil Bart's face as he stared at her.

,He seemed to be glad, almost gloating. Was I being unfair to him? Or was it guilt I saw in his eyes?

I sobbed as Mom was lifted onto a stretcher and put in an ambulance that would drive her and Dad to toe nearest hospital. Melodie's father promised he'd drop me off at the hospital, then drive Bart bomcsafely.

"Though I'm sure Melodie wishes it was Jory who'd go home, and Bart who'd insist on staying with his mother in the hospital."

Much later Mom awakened from the sedatives given her to stare at the flowers filling her room. "Why, it looks like a garden," she breathed. She smiled weakly at Dad, stretching out her arms to embrace him and then me. "I know you're going to say I told you so, Chris. Butttntfl I feu.Tdid dance wea, didn't I?"

"It was your slipper ribbon," I said, 'anxious to protect her from his anger. "If it hadn't loosened you wouldntAavefaBen."

"My eg Wt broken, is it?" she asked Dad.

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