The Kept
“After leaving the relative comfort of the van Tessel estate, someone had always awaited her arrival: Jorah had waited in the woods and in their incomplete house; Mary and then the rest of the children—growing like grass in her absence—had waited for their mother to appear over the lip of the hill; Caleb had waited for her amid the gruesome bodies of his family; and he’d waited for her to find the men responsible. This last task she had spent little time on, wary of her own tenuous place in Wate...rsbridge and distracted by her work on the lake, by Charles, and by the idea of another baby. And now, she waited on—and prepared for—Caleb.
She leaned back and dipped her hair in the water, letting it rush in around her ears, shutting out the world. She rolled over and scrubbed her face hard with her hands, the pain immense, the calluses on her palms scratching her cheeks, and emerged without the smudged complexion that had given her the shadowed look of a man. To her hair she applied some of the oils and powders she’d received from Jakob and brushed out the knots and gnarls.MoreLess
She leaned back and dipped her hair in the water, letting it rush in around her ears, shutting out the world. She rolled over and scrubbed her face hard with her hands, the pain immense, the calluses on her palms scratching her cheeks, and emerged without the smudged complexion that had given her the shadowed look of a man. To her hair she applied some of the oils and powders she’d received from Jakob and brushed out the knots and gnarls.MoreLess
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