The Wolf in My Tavern (COVETED PREY #22) by L.V. Lane EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: L.V. Lane
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Ada
“Git me some supper, daughter,” my father slurs as he bangs open the
door and staggers into the tiny room we call home.
It has been a long day, and I’m chilled to the bone, my
threadbare clothes and worn shawl having offered no protection from the
frigid sleet that pelted me during my walk home.
I’m exhausted after working all day for a pittance at the fish markets of
Bleakness. I’ve not had a chance to light even a small fire.
My father’s limited patience won’t allow for that now. He backhands
me when I do not move swiftly enough for his liking, sending me bowling
into the table. The corner stabs my hip, and I gasp as it catches a bruise—
just one of many from his constant abuse.
I hate my father.
I hate my life.
Yet this pitiful residence—this hovel—but a single room is a million
times better than sleeping on the streets.
I hasten to fetch the pitcher I brought home and collect bowls and
spoons from the shelf. Supper tonight, as it often is, has come via the
pauper’s kitchen—vegetable and fish stew—and some bread the baker’s lad
slipped to me as I passed his shop at closing time. It was burnt on one side
and would usually be tossed away, but he will often save any spoiled bread
for me, for he knows my situation.
I don’t have any coin. The money I make gutting fish goes straight to
the local tavern via my father’s pockets. I tried keeping a bit aside once and
copped a beating for my trouble.
I set a bowl in front of him as he slumps into the single rickety chair at
the table shoved against one wall. Next, I pour stew for us both and slice up
the bread, placing some beside his bowl. He grunts as he rips off a chunk of
the burnt bread and dunks it into his stew.
My brief smile is one of quiet victory that I gave him the worst of the
bread.
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