The Mavericks
“Her question reached down deep into the core of him, to a place where even Hawk was seldom allowed to go.
He’d spent the first fourteen years of his life as a slave, ripped from his mother and sold to a woman who beat him, starved him, berated him, told him he was stupid and not worth the hundred dollars she’d paid for him. His home had been her attic, his bed the bare floorboards, his food the scraps from her table. His work had been whatever menial chore she assigned him, his reward constant complaints that he couldn’t do even the simplest job right. She had threatened to shoot him, sell him, give him to the Indians. In the end she’d sold him to some farmers who’d nearly killed him with overwork. It wasn’t until Jake and Isabelle adopted him that people stopped treating him as the lowest form of life.
Years later he finally realized he’d survived those first fourteen years only because he hated that woman for making him feel unworthy. He’d fought his adopted family at first because ...he didn’t believe anyone could like him.MoreLess
He’d spent the first fourteen years of his life as a slave, ripped from his mother and sold to a woman who beat him, starved him, berated him, told him he was stupid and not worth the hundred dollars she’d paid for him. His home had been her attic, his bed the bare floorboards, his food the scraps from her table. His work had been whatever menial chore she assigned him, his reward constant complaints that he couldn’t do even the simplest job right. She had threatened to shoot him, sell him, give him to the Indians. In the end she’d sold him to some farmers who’d nearly killed him with overwork. It wasn’t until Jake and Isabelle adopted him that people stopped treating him as the lowest form of life.
Years later he finally realized he’d survived those first fourteen years only because he hated that woman for making him feel unworthy. He’d fought his adopted family at first because ...he didn’t believe anyone could like him.MoreLess
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