Title: Torn Away
Author: Vincent Morrone
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
EXCERPT:
“My father was always mean and
cruel,” Drew said. “And we never knew when he’d strike out. Smacking us with
the back of his hand, giving us a kick when we didn’t expect it, but normally
it was quick and it was done. Those rages he went into, they were rarer.
Sometimes you could go days, other times weeks, but when they happened, it was
legendary. It was three weeks before it happened again. Something set him off.
Not sure what, but he came home looking for us and we knew. So I did almost the same thing again.”
“What do you mean almost?”
“Ashley begged me to hide in there with them,”
Drew explained. “But I knew he’d look for us and break down the door to get to
us. He was already slamming doors downstairs. So I pushed both of my sisters in
there. And then I locked the door.”
Sam blinked. “You had a closet door
with a lock on it?”
“We did then,” Drew said. “I’d
managed to change it out after the last time. I didn’t want them getting out
again. So I locked my sisters in a closet and dealt with my father. Ashley is
still afraid of enclosed spaces. I
did that to her. I knew they’d be stuck in there until I could manage to let
them out and sometimes that was hours later, but I stuck them in there whenever
I knew he was in a rage. I tried to protect them from my father, but there was
nobody there to protect them from me.”
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