Ashes of Betrayal: A Daughter's Fiery Return

d burning flesh still

flying to my throat, expecti

skin wa

he Johns family ranch. The morning s

the Lone St

th... it was a nightmare that fel

ed at my hands, turning them over and over. The

came at

You up yet?

s it always was, deep and commanding. But now, I heard s

called out, m

ho filled the doorway. He had that public smile on his fa

sket King is almost ready. A Johns has

desk, picking up a sm

this year, you know. T

a dry, dism

. She doesn' t have the tale

his face at the competition in my last life, how he stood beside Gabrielle

lowed the secret instructions in my mother' s old re

he smoker's wood with my own blood. My mother wrote that it creat

my triumph. Instead, i

a sudden act. It was a plan. A

different. This tim

aid, forcing a small smile.

gesture that was supposed to be e

' s my

was wearing fell away. I looked at my re

just a desire.