Broken By the Battleship (THE KNOTTIVERSE: ALPHAS OF THE WATERWORLD #5) by V.T. Bonds EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Iris
At the sound of my father’s angry voice bellowing down the hall, I race
across the room and slam the door closed with my momentum. Not
wasting time on the broken locks, I drop the metal bar in place and grab
the sack sitting underneath the lopsided bench.
“Time for hide and seek,” I call out just loud enough for Sail, my elevenyear-old brother, to hear over the rush of water on the hull from the
bedroom.
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“Reef, show me where to hide,” I insist as I reach down to take his tiny
five-year-old hand on my way across the room.
He abandons his toy blocks and tucks his ragged doll under his arm
before grabbing my hand and running as fast as his little legs will carry him,
just like we practiced. My heart pounds against my sternum and adrenaline
heightens my senses as my father’s heavy boots stomp closer.
He’s angry. Very angry.
As angry as the night he killed my mom.
Fear and fury clog my throat and prickle at the back of my eyes. He
can’t know I planned to run away with my brothers, but his anger suggests
otherwise.
Sail darts out of the bedroom, almost tripping me in his haste, but I
press my palm to his back and urge him forward even faster. He yanks the
small box off the warped and tarnished kitchen counter on his way past
and hugs it to his chest as he slips into the long, narrow storage hideaway
between the kitchen and the washroom.
Memories flash through me, and I fight a bout of nausea as I recall my
mother’s sweet voice as she urged me into the space and closed the panel
behind me.
I was a stubborn child. Not like these boys. They’re so sweet and
precious.
At only five years old, Reef is too young for us to know his dynamic with
any certainty, but as he dives into the mound of ratty but clean fabrics at
the back of the cubby, I wonder if he might present as an omega, but his
omega tendencies could be born out of habit and not instinct. He was so
young when our father stole our mother away from us, and the only way I
could stop Reef from crying was to share mother’s nest with him.
I sidestep into the narrow room and drop the sack in front of Sail. The
space is so narrow my shoulders brush both walls, but I squat and meet his
eyes. When I reach out to touch his face, he leans into my palm and cups
my hand.
“Don’t come out, no matter what you hear. Understand?” I demand.
He nods. The fear shining from his blue eyes—which look so much like
mother’s—twists my stomach, but I push the sensation away and give him
a quick kiss on the forehead before shuffling out of the room and swinging
the panel closed.
“Lock it, Sail. Just like we practiced,” I urge through the thin metal.
When I hear the makeshift latches slide into place, I praise him and
rush back into the kitchen.
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