The Wildest Heart (2011)
“But our first meeting did not take place at once. I had not expected the valley to be so large that it would take us almost four hours to cross it.
It took us a journey of almost five days after we had left the ranchería to reach a place of awesome grandeur, a mountaintop that seemed to jut out over another mountaintop. We had done nothing but climb to get here, and I felt myself ready to drop with weariness, although I knew better than to utter a murmur of protest. Lucas Cord had driven us... all, and even his own brother had grumbled at him that there was no need for such haste.
“The hunting here is good—why hurry? We will get there in the end!”
Julio, when he spoke to me, had begun to address me with exaggerated politeness, always prefixing his requests with the word nidee, little sister. Still, when he thought I wasn’t aware of it, I could feel his eyes upon me, making me feel vaguely uneasy.
Lucas, on the other hand, paid no attention to me unless he had to.MoreLess
It took us a journey of almost five days after we had left the ranchería to reach a place of awesome grandeur, a mountaintop that seemed to jut out over another mountaintop. We had done nothing but climb to get here, and I felt myself ready to drop with weariness, although I knew better than to utter a murmur of protest. Lucas Cord had driven us... all, and even his own brother had grumbled at him that there was no need for such haste.
“The hunting here is good—why hurry? We will get there in the end!”
Julio, when he spoke to me, had begun to address me with exaggerated politeness, always prefixing his requests with the word nidee, little sister. Still, when he thought I wasn’t aware of it, I could feel his eyes upon me, making me feel vaguely uneasy.
Lucas, on the other hand, paid no attention to me unless he had to.MoreLess
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