The Clearing (Outside #2) by Shalini Boland

The Clearing (Outside #2) by Shalini Boland

Author:Shalini Boland [Boland, Shalini]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Adrenalin Books
Published: 2013-01-14T07:00:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty Two

Liss

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The desire to turn her head was so overwhelming that she couldn’t breathe. What would they do to her if she did? Would they kill her? But her mum and possibly her dad were nearby. Close enough to shout to her. After all these years.

But then again, what if it wasn’t her mum? What if it was only someone who sounded like her and this was all a trick to see if she would disobey them and turn around.

Liss continued to stare straight ahead at the wooden door. It faded in and out of focus as old memories crowded her brain. Things she hadn’t thought about in years. The soapy smell of her mother’s cheek as she kissed her goodnight. Baking cakes together in the kitchen. Holding mum’s hand so tightly as they visited the market at the compound. What she wouldn’t give to turn and see her mother’s face right now. To collapse into her arms and be swept up in kisses. To leave this place.

But how could she be sure it wasn’t a trick?

She would do it. She would look. . .

But in that split second between decision and action, the cloth hood came down over her head once more and everything went dark. Liss wanted to scream and rip the hood from her head. But she didn’t. She stood and let the man lead her away. A tear fell and she used the hood to blot it away.

As she stumbled, blind, alongside the man who held her arm, guiding her away from the thing she had dreamed of all these years. She began to convince herself that of course it hadn’t been her parents. If they’d known she was here, they would have got her out years ago. And why would the man have made her stand there while her mum called out to her?

It had to have been a test. And she had passed. She didn’t let herself think about the alternative – that her mother had come to see her and she, Liss, had been too afraid to turn around.



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