Renegade (2014)
““Why are you saying this?” he growled. “Are you and Alice so determined to return to Roanoke that you’d make up this . . . this hideous lie?”
I wished I had proof enough to convince him, but according to legend, my mother had died on the morning after Griffin was born. That’s what we’d always believed, anyway.
“It’s no lie,” said Jerren softly. “I saw her. When Dare visited Sumter a month before you arrived, she was with him. She even told me you’d be coming.”
“You saw a woman, that...’s all,” snapped Ananias. “She could’ve been anyone.”
Jerren raised his hands, palms out like he was preparing to deflect punches. “She arrived with Dare—the only woman on board his ship. The pirates treated her differently too. Respectfully.”
“Then she was his wife.”
“No. They’re related. If you saw her, you’d understand.”MoreLess
I wished I had proof enough to convince him, but according to legend, my mother had died on the morning after Griffin was born. That’s what we’d always believed, anyway.
“It’s no lie,” said Jerren softly. “I saw her. When Dare visited Sumter a month before you arrived, she was with him. She even told me you’d be coming.”
“You saw a woman, that...’s all,” snapped Ananias. “She could’ve been anyone.”
Jerren raised his hands, palms out like he was preparing to deflect punches. “She arrived with Dare—the only woman on board his ship. The pirates treated her differently too. Respectfully.”
“Then she was his wife.”
“No. They’re related. If you saw her, you’d understand.”MoreLess
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