6/6/2023 0 Comments Red queen by christina henry![]() “I don’t expect that they will.” The stoats, or whatever they were, moved closer. But I don’t expect that intentions will count for much now.” “No,” Alice said. I would have mangled them to pieces like I slaughtered the men who killed her mother. “I would have killed anyone who ever touched her, ever harmed her. “ That’s what I would have done, if I could have remembered her,” Hatcher said as the light began to fade. And when he didn’t come she would have learned to despise him for not saving her. Alice was sure that Jenny had cried every night for her father. She’d thought her papa was the greatest hero who ever lived. Your father is the strongest person in the world.” Alice remembered the wonder she’d felt when she’d learned her father had killed a rat that had gotten into the house when she was young. “Little girls think their fathers can do anything, save them from any danger. She felt it was best not to lie generally, and found she was incapable of lying to Hatcher in any case. ![]() “She likely will,” Alice said, inching around behind Hatcher so that they stood back-to-back. It would have been better if Hatcher had waited until they were not in potentially mortal danger to discuss it. ![]()
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