Chapter 418


    Chapter 418- Vengeance E


    Cora asks Sarah about her mother in a frank, curious way that I think allows Sarah to straighten her


    spine and answer impassively, like she’s giving a report to a doctor instead of having to break a hard


    truth to a queen who will probably break into tears. And I smile a little at the back of my sister’s head,


    grateful for her for giving Sarah what she needs when I can’t.


    “He beat her,” Sarah says, and my heart twists almost physically within me. “She…she was growing


    older, and she couldn’t do her chores the way she used to. And…” Sarah bites her lip and looks only at


    Cora now, telling her what she wouldn’t be able to say to the rest of us, not while holding her head high.


    “And he started to look at me, the way he looked at my mother. And she tried to keep me away from


    him, to find other chores in other parts of the house. And when he figured out what she was doing


    he…”


    Sarah’s voice cracks here and I have to look away from her so that my eyes don’t fill with tears. Sinir


    slips a hand onto my knee, wanting to give mefort but not to distract from Sarah’s story.


    Sarah takes a deep breath before she continues. “He told her she was an idiot and a whore, for trying


    to keep his property from him. And that he could do what we wanted with all of us take our bodies, our


    lives. And then,” she shrugs, looking down at the tablecloth. “He did. He took her life then, to show


    her…and to show me.”


    I make myself look back at Sarah now, who looks up at Cora, and then at me. And I hope that she


    sees, shining in my eyes, my deep and renewed desire for vengeance. Because there is absolutely no


    way that I am going to let this man live.


    “That was the moment,” she says, nodding to me and then looking at Sinir too, though a little shier


    now. ” When mother died? I decided that…that if he could take what I loved most from me, I could take


    what he most wanted too. The little baby – I could…I could take that away from him. And so I did or, I


    tried.”


    “You seeded,” Sinir says quietly, next to me.


    “No,” she says, shaking her head vehemently and looking down at her hands. “You’d have been safe


    anyway – you’d have figured it out.”


    “The note,” Roger says, leaning around Cora to look clearly at Sarah, to make sure she hears him. “It


    gave us an advantage that…without it, Sarah, they very well could have taken Rafe. We owe you a


    great debt.”


    “No,” she says instantly, flushing red. “I don’t – I don’t want anything. And I don’t want you to think that I


    did this so that you would give me anything.”


    “We don’t think that, Sarah,” I say softly, hugging my baby close and leaning forward to catch her eye.


    “But we want to help you, like we want to help the other refugees. Though I admit,” my mouth cocks


    into a little smile here, “I do want to help you a little bit more than the others. Because I’m so, so


    grateful. I mean, what would you like – you can have anything!” My face splits into a wide grin here as I


    point at my sister’s mate. “You can even take Roger! He’s the least useful-Books Chapters Are Daily


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    Cora gives a little squeak of protest as Sinir bursts intoughter and Roger turns to re at me, his


    mouth falling open. Sarah starts tough too as she realizes my joke and shake her head, rather


    vehemently, no.


    But seeing Sarah decline my offer, Roger turns his shock on her.


    “Wait, you don’t want me either!?” he gasps, and we all start tough harder as he sinks back into his


    chair, ying along now and exaggerating his fury for the sake of the mood in the room. Because…


    frankly, we need augh.


    And I want Sarah to know that we hear her but…well, I want to give her some of the hope that Cora


    and I always had. That things can get better – and they will. And maybe that starts today, with a little


    laughter at Roger’s willing expense. I turn an apologetic look his way but he just gives me a wink,


    understanding, and I turn back to Sarah.


    “We’ll talk about it, okay?” I say, still holding my baby tight. “But…we’re going to be friends now, Sarah.


    Good friends friends for life. And friends help each other get back on their feet.”


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    Sarah’s smile is slow, but when it reaches its full extent I swear my heart could burst with joy of it.


    Because I see it there that hope I was looking for.


    And I intend to keep every part of my word. Sarah is going to have a good life, and I’m going to help


    her get it.


    “Ohhhh, Sarah!” Jessica moans, running over with two kittens, one in each hand, her eyes filled with


    worry and woe. “Please, please can we keep them?” She looks down at the little orange ball of fur and


    then at the grey one, her voice a little frantic. “I love them so much – I can’t you have to let me keep


    them!”


    “Oh, Jessica,” Sarah sighs, putting her arms out and wrapping them around her little sister. “We don’t


    even have a home to take them to yet -”


    “And they’re too young,” Henry adds, looking at Jessica seriously, “to leave their mother. Perhaps in a


    few weeks, when they’re ready? You and your sister can talk about it again?”


    Jessica groans with grief at the idea of leaving the two little kittens, making meugh a little.


    “Well, you can stay here until we find you a home of your own,” I say, crossing my fingers under the


    table a bit as I make this rather reckless offer without even asking my mate. “So you can still see them


    every day, Jessica. When you’re not at school, of course.”


    “School?” she says, looking at me with wide eyes. “I – I get to go to school?”


    “Yes!” I say, surprised and looking at Sarah, who gives me a big smile and nods excitedly. “Yes,


    Jessica. School every day, and kittens at night. Does that sound like a good start to your new life?”


    And a little tear runs down Sarah’s cheek as Jessica says a vehement yes, cuddling the little cats close


    to her chest. I look up at Sinir then, hoping that he’ll say.


    But he’s already nodding, which makes me burst into a grin. And then he leans forward, pressing a kiss


    to my forehead. My sweet, good mate, he murmurs to me down our bond. You’ll be a wonderful queen.


    And warmth spreads through me at the idea of it – because if being queen means I get to do things like


    this? Then I’m definitely on board, and excited.


    But that warmth is chased a bit with anger, and sadness, and rage.


    Because even if we can help Sarah and Jessica…Xander’s still out there in the world, and more men


    like him. And we’ve got work to do to take them out of it.


    Work I am very, very determined to pursue.