Maxine wants to find her baby sister but to do that she has to break free from Charley so she steals half a million dollars from him and runs off with Berle Kubiak. In Portland, Maxine finds her lost sister and she falls in love with Berle. Clyde, Charley's enforcer brings Maxine and Berle back to Charley along with the half million, but Charley wants more than his money--he wants Berle dead.
Genre: FICTION / Action & Adventure5 star rankings; moderate sales
I cross the love divide. It’s an abyss. It’s a long way from L to O and there’s a canyon between V and E but I do what I have to do—I hold her. Hold her tight. Feel her heat. Smell the hot metal anger. Feel the slavery in her skin that’s kept her in chains since the day some man took what didn’t belong to him and never gave it back leaving her like this—betrayed, hurt, so beautiful in her pain that she can’t understand why I’m here and what I’m doing and why I’m not leaving.
Snuggled against me, she’s perfect. I wonder what she’s seeing in there this time and who’s with her and what is he doing to her. And in her anguish, she is perfect and soft and real and I’m not going anywhere without her. L O V E. There are times when you say things that make horror blush. Times you make terror scream. And there are times when you don’t say what needs to be said and for that you rot from the inside out with the words nailed to your tongue. I should have said it. She knew I wanted to say it. But I couldn’t. I just couldn’t.
And then, my eyes go heavy and I drop off and it’s dawn when I come back to Maxine kneeling over me and she’s crying. She whispers,
Please don’t make me go back.
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by Denise Quiroga
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