Chapter 32
Canada, Twenty-Eight Years Ago
The boy screamed in rage and grabbed for the liver. Noshi snatched it away and carried it outside. Chepi reached to comfort the boy. He bit her finger so viciously it bled. “Damn!” she said, jerking her hand back.
“I hate you. I will kill you,” he said.
Noshi entered the cave. “Don’t ever talk to your mother like that.” He raised his hand to strike the boy.
Instead of cowering as he had in the past when his father threatened to hit him, the boy straightened to make himself taller and glared at his father. When the boy bared his teeth and growled like a rabid dog, Noshi hesitated then dropped his hand…
Northern California, Present Time
Tonight she’d sleep well. Maggie turned off the ringer to her cell. No interruptions, thank you very much. N
