The Worst Thing I've Done (2007)
“Mason felt lazy, content, as he lay on the old velvet couch, his head on Annie’s knees, his feet on the stack of books Aunt Stormy usually kept on the couch.“Little turtles are the most intelligent ones. See?” Aunt Stormy turned a page of National Geographic.Opal’s hands padded the magazine as Aunt Stormy made up stories for her.“Especially turtles with red on top like you.”Mason felt Annie’s fingers in his hair. “Don’t you stop.”“What is it worth to you?”“My life,” he said without thinking but... meaning it, knowing it to be true.“Is that so?” Her face above him, open, wide. Her smile mischievous. But her eyes sad. Not matching her smile. Not back—yet?—to the light from before her parents’ death.Yesterday, on their anniversary, she’d woken up crying, hard, and last night she’d cried for her parents again in his arms, quietly, because they were in Aunt Stormy’s guest room with Opal sleeping nearby in the crib. He’d held Annie like he had all those other nights she cried; but all at once he’d felt furious at her parents.MoreLess
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