"Kit Reed - What Wolves Know" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reed Kit)

Happy is stronger than Timbo now. Louder. тАЬNow clear out, and take
everybody with you.тАЭ

****

It is night again. The mother knocks. Happy has mauled the body, as
Timbo would, but he will not eat. There is no point to it.

тАЬCan I come in?тАЭ

He allows it.

There will be no screaming and no reproaches. She stands quietly,
studying the body.

After a long time she says, тАЬOkay. Yes. He deserved it.тАЭ

When you remember old hurts you remember them all, not just the
ones people want you to. Therefore Happy says the one thing about this
that he will ever say to her:

тАЬHe wasnтАЩt the only one.тАЭ

тАЬOh, Happy,тАЭ she says. тАЬOh God.тАЭ She isnтАЩt begging for her life, she
is inquiring.

It is a charged moment.

There are memories that you canтАЩt prevent and then there are
memories you refuse to get back, and over these, you have some power.
This is the choice Happy has to make but he is confused now by memories
of Sonia. Her tongue was rough. She was firm, but loving. This mother
waits. What will he do? She means no harm. She wants to protect him.
Poised between this room and freedom in the woods, between the
undecided and the obvious, he doesnтАЩt know.

What he does know is that no matter what she did to you and no
matter how hard to forgive, you will forget what your mother did to you
because she is your mother.