![]() ![]() “Here’s all I got,” his mother said, pushing a quarter to the side of his plate. “I wish you’d let me eat,” he said again.Īs he ate he felt that they were thinking of the job he was to get that evening and it made him angry he felt that they had tricked him into a cheap surrender. He kept staring at his sister till her eyes fell. ![]() He laid down his fork and his strong black fingers gripped the edge of the table there was silence save for the tinkling of his brother’s fork against a plate. “Ma’s talking to you, Bigger,” Vera said. His mother talked on as though she had not heard him and he stopped listening. “God, I wish you-all would let me eat,” Bigger said. “Bigger ain’t decent enough to think of nothing like that,” Vera said. You could be comfortable and not have to live like pigs.” “If you get that job,” his mother said in a low, kind tone of voice, busy slicing a loaf of bread, “I can fix up a nice place for you children. “I wish you’d keep your big mouth out of this!” he told his sister. “What you want me to do? Shout?” Bigger asked. “Bigger’s setting here like he ain’t glad to get a job,” she said. “I’m not going to take any stinking sass from you. “You shut your mouth, Buddy, or get up from this table,” the mother said. ![]() “He told you he was going to take the job.” “And you know how you can forget,” Vera said. ![]() “Well, don’t bite her head off,” Vera said. “I told you last night I was going to take it. “You going to take the job, ain’t you, Bigger?” his mother asked. “You want me to pour you some coffee?” Vera asked. ![]()
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Then go.” His authoritative facade crumbled and the innocent hurt of a young boy dripped from his soul as he spoke. The sting of my insult was evident in the painful expression that settled on his face. I wanted to snatch them back and swallow them down again. “You…you’re a…sympathizer.” It sounded dirty as the words passed between my lips. Will Beckett be true to his word and set Cressenda free? Will her heart let her leave after all they’ve shared? His desperate need to help Cressenda escape both- the blizzard and the Affinity- makes her feelings for him all the more troubling. When a routine trip to civilization takes a turn for the worst, Cressenda is forced to take refuge with the enemy or lose her life to the frozen countryside.īut Beckett, a Guard of the Affinity, is more than a man in uniform. 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