Forget-Me-Not Bride
“‘Only Uncle Herbert didn’t want Lilli living with him and I don’t really think he wanted me, either. The only one of us he wanted was Leo.’ Ringan made the little noise in his throat that Lottie thought of as his ‘Scottish’noise.
‘And then Uncle Herbert said he was going to change Leo’s surname to his own and make-believe that Leo was his son. He told Lilli she was to leave the house and Lilli knew that once she did so he would never let her see us again. And so when she left the house she ...took us with her,’ Lottie finished simply.
‘Your sister’s a verra feisty young lady,’ Ringan said, wondering how any man, given a little family like the Stullens to care for, could have been so crass as to have earned their contempt instead of their affection.
‘We had to go quickly,’ Lottie continued, raising her face up to the afternoon sun and the dizzying summits of the mountains, ‘because Uncle Herbert had told Lilli she had to be out of the house that very day.MoreLess
‘And then Uncle Herbert said he was going to change Leo’s surname to his own and make-believe that Leo was his son. He told Lilli she was to leave the house and Lilli knew that once she did so he would never let her see us again. And so when she left the house she ...took us with her,’ Lottie finished simply.
‘Your sister’s a verra feisty young lady,’ Ringan said, wondering how any man, given a little family like the Stullens to care for, could have been so crass as to have earned their contempt instead of their affection.
‘We had to go quickly,’ Lottie continued, raising her face up to the afternoon sun and the dizzying summits of the mountains, ‘because Uncle Herbert had told Lilli she had to be out of the house that very day.MoreLess
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