BLOOD ORANGE
Chapter Two I think I told you that the worst moment of my life was when I had lost my favorite music to the treatment had once undergone in order to be released early from the staja. That might have been true once, but no moment is worse than when you wake up one morning and find that your child has been taken from you. Not by death, no. But by an old enemy who just can't seem to figure out that there is no longer any reason to hold so much as a malenky grudge. It was most definitely not a horrorshow morning. I, your humble narrator Alex, had already lost my wife. I was not about to lose Alice as well. I had made mistakes in my life, and yet I was blessed with a wonderful child. That blessing was something I would never simply let go of. At least not until she was old enough to find a good man for herself. Mind you, that malenky malchick would have to pass any screening I cared to give. I've walked the dark paths before, as I once said before. It is a road that I wanted to keep my daughter off of as long as possible I pulled an old lockbox from the bedroom closet. Fitting the key to the lock I opened it and pulled out my little girl's birth certificate, my wedding papers, and a few things I'd saved from my wedding. I was never really sure why I had saved those two roses, now dried like the flowers hung on old country houses you see in ancient books. Under all those things, my britva sat waiting for me to clasp it in my hand once more. I picked it up and my fingers found there way around it in much the same way that a hug finds its way around a long-lost droog. I was going to get my child back no matter what it took. I wasn't going to kill anyone and end up in the staja again. I'd never see or hold her again if I did. But if I had to cut off a pinky or two just to make a point, then Bog help the man who touched my malenky child. It wasn't going to be horrorshow for them either. Especially not if they were taking Alice down the dark paths that I swore to protect her from.
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