Legacy (SAVAGE SONS LONDON #1) by Emma Mountford EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Emma Mountford
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Kate
There were flowers on my desk when I arrived at work. Beautiful,
pale yellow ones. The kind that had always been my favourite. It was the
first time he had sent flowers to my work and the first time he sent yellow
roses. I didn’t know how to feel about either.
Yes, I had told him to stop with the yearly bouquet left on the doorstep,
and I had meant it. I didn’t need the yearly reminder that my husband had
died on this day ten years ago. I lived with that pain every single day,
anyway. But seeing him again had thrown me. It had taken me back to a
time when I had been so blissfully happy that I had thought foolishly that it
would never end.
It had ended, though.
In the blink of an eye, all that happiness went away.
I tore my eyes away from the roses that I had tossed in the bin the
moment I had seen them, and my already melancholy mood took a
nosedive.
Scraping back my chair, I rushed forward. “What the hell, Conner?”
Rushing towards the boy in front of me, I reached for his usually smooth
skin. It wasn’t smooth anymore. There was blood crusted under his nose
and on his lips. A yellow-purple bruise was darkening his left eye.
He flinched and ducked away before I could stop him. I dropped my hand
to my side. He was almost as tall as I was now, and growing like a weed,
but it had been a long time since he had looked so young and lost. No
matter how tall he got, he was still a child, and I was in charge of his safety.
Something I was clearly failing at if the state of his face was anything to go
by.
“Why have you been fighting, Conner?” I tried to keep my voice neutral,
but it wobbled a little. Conner was my brother-in-law, not my son, but I had
raised him alone since his brother, Paul, my husband, had died. He’d had no
one else, but if I was honest, I had needed him more than he needed me. He
gave me a reason to get up every morning in the aftermath of Paul’s death.
Facing me, his face screwed up, and the cut opened up, seeping blood. He
wiped it with the sleeve of his white school shirt, leaving a red stain.
“You always do this, Kate,” he growled out, his frustration evident. I got
that because I was frustrated as well. At life, at myself, and at him. Because
he just couldn’t seem to keep himself out of trouble.
“What do I do?”
“You blame me without even hearing my side of the story.” His slender
shoulders were hunched. “It’s always my fault, isn’t it?” He blew out a
breath. “Don’t worry about it. I shouldn’t have come here. I knew you
wouldn’t care.”
I grabbed his shirt sleeve before he could rush out the door. “Conner.” His
words cut into me. Was that what he believed? That I didn’t care? “Of
course, I care.” Pulling him towards my desk, I pushed him into the chair
that I usually worked from. “Tell me what happened.”
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