Chapter 14

A couple of hours later, he watched them from the top of the hill and couldn’t hold back the smile forming on his lips. They looked as if they were worry-free. To see Saya enjoying herself and not trying to call someone out for looking at her wrong was new for him. She was being a child for a change. It took him a long time to find her after Julius sold her and even longer to get her to stop acting like a caged animal. It took him months to get her to open up to him, and now here she was in the company of the woman for less than a day and was at her every call.

When he saw that bastard get off that train, his first instinct was to blow his brains out, but then Victoria stepped into his line of vision. He watched her now as she grabbed hold of a rope John had tied to the lower branch of the hickory tree that stood next to the pond for the kids. She gave a little run and then went over to about the middle of the pond and dropped down in the water. He wondered what kind of life s