"Andrews, V C - The Casteels 02 - Dark Angel" - читать интересную книгу автора (Andrews V.C)

Jilhan had been part of my life for less than o h ur, and already I
guessed that she didn't want ton o hear. of anyone's problems, neither
mine nor my mother's. I bit down harder on my lower lip, trying to
,-Xpep from showing my emotions, and then, like the ties sing white lies
could sometimes be, my pride came in full dress parade. I sat
straighter. I swallowed tears. I vanquished the throat lump. My
shoulders ened. And to my utmost surprise, my voice came it, strong,
honest, sincere: My mother and father met in Atlanta and fell eply in
love on first sight. Daddy rushed her to his nts in West Virginia so
she'd have a decent house which to stay that night. His home was not
exactly Winnerrow, more on the outskirts. They were d in a proper church
ceremony, with flowers, ness es and a minister to say the words, and
later ey drove away to honeymoon in Nflami. And when came back Daddy had
a new bathroom added to r house just to please my mother." Silence! A
dead silence that went on and on---didn't they believe my lies? "Why
that was very nice, considerate," murmured Tony, looking at me in the
oddest way. "Something I never would have thought of, a new bathroom,
but practical, very practical." Jillian sat with her head turned, as if
she didn't want to hear any of the details of her daughter's married
life. "How many people lived with your parent sT persisted Tony.

- "Only Granny and Grandpa," I said defensively. "They were crazy about
my mother, so much they called her nothing but Angel. It was Angel this,
and Angel that. She could do no wrong. You would have liked my granny.
She died a few years ago, but Grandpa still lives with Pa."

And what day and month were you, born quizzed Tony. He had long, strong
fingers, and his nails shone. "February the twenty-second," I said,
giving the right date but the wrong year-I gave the year Fanny had been
born, one year after me. "She'd been married to Pa for more than a
year," I added, thinking that sounded better than a birth that came just
eight months after marriage, which might have betrayed some frenzied
need my parents had had for bedding down with each other

And only when the words were out of my mouth did I realize just what I
had done.

I had trapped myself. Now they thought I was only sixteen. Now I could
never tell them about my half brothers Tom and Keith, and my half
sisters, Fanny and Our Jane. And it had been my solemn intention

the help of my mother's parents so I could put Ln-dly back together
again under one roof. Oh, forgive me for wanting to secure my own place
Tony, I am tired. You know I have to rest between three and five if I am
to appear fresh for that dinner rty tonight." A slightly troubled look
shaded -her ,,cxpression before it quickly cleared. "Heaven dear, you
won't mind if Tony and I step out for a few hours onight, will you?
You'll have a TV in your room, and there's a wonderful library on the
first floor with thousands of books." She leaned to put a soft kiss on
my cheek, smothering me with her perfume that filled the enclosed space.