"They lied to me. Leah and John. About my parents, my family." All those years. Almost half her life. "My mawmaw and my mama. They hatched up the plan with John and Leah to save me from the colonel by marrying me. He didn't tell me that. He told me they wanted me back. To sell me to the colonel. He said he was keeping me safe from my family."
She made a sound that was almost a sob, then curled her lips into her mouth and bit down on them to keep from making it again.
"And he told my family he'd told me the truth, but I was too scared of the colonel, so I didn't want them around."
She wanted to wail again, the way she had when she got herself alone after Sister Erasmus first told her, wanted to demand to know why he would have done such a thing.
"All those years. They thought - and I thought -" Her throat hurt too much to get anymore out.
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"They lied to me. Leah and John. About my parents, my family." All those years. Almost half her life. "My mawmaw and my mama. They hatched up the plan with John and Leah to save me from the colonel by marrying me. He didn't tell me that. He told me they wanted me back. To sell me to the colonel. He said he was keeping me safe from my family."
She made a sound that was almost a sob, then curled her lips into her mouth and bit down on them to keep from making it again.
"And he told my family he'd told me the truth, but I was too scared of the colonel, so I didn't want them around."
She wanted to wail again, the way she had when she got herself alone after Sister Erasmus first told her, wanted to demand to know why he would have done such a thing.
"All those years. They thought - and I thought -" Her throat hurt too much to get anymore out.