Rebel Heart Read Online Free
Author: Christine Young
tears was not part of his plan.
"And you thought I would allow you to send the girls away while I sat at home doing nothing."
"I've signed the papers. There is no other way." DeMontville rose, pushing his chair back with his legs. An already bad day had just grown that much worse.
"There are always options," she told him. "I will take them to the mountains. They would not need to be purified." Her voice was stiff, her eyes red and that determined tilt to her chin meant an argument she knew she couldn't win but she meant to go down fighting.
"That would not do. There are people, even friends and family who are calling for punishment. We have indulged the girls and news of their exploits reaches all places--even the mountains."
"They have my blood and they are immune. The laws are foolish and should be reexamined."
Sunlight caught her golden hair and danced around her. She was the most beautiful lady he'd ever seen. She had stolen his heart that long ago day and she still held it fast. If he had the power to grant her this wish, he would. He motioned to his desk. Her gaze followed and she nodded, seeming to understand without the words that those were all laws that were being reexamined.
"They have been changed. Just this past month. If anything the laws are harsher. The people of the cities fear the diseases that can wipe out entire populations in a blink. I cannot..."
"Will not." She defiantly crossed her arms in front of her chest. She looked at the girls then back to him. "They are only children."
"Please, I do not want to argue. The gliders will be here within the hour. I assume their bags are packed."
"We are ready, father," Tori said her head held high, a look of defiance in her beautiful grey eyes. Her mother's eyes.
"Yes, I see that." DeMontville stroked his chin. Sudden admiration for his girls filled him. "You are determined then to be brave."
"We are both brave," Nessa said, stepping up to her sister to put her arm through Tori's. "We will do this with no complaints."
"Where are they taking them?" Lady DeMontville asked. "I have a mother's right to know."
"Despite your god given rights, I cannot tell you. But I chose each of their destinations carefully. If they follow the laws, listen and respect their elders, they will develop into adults everyone will be proud of.
"I'm already proud of them."
"Of course you are and I am as well. But when they return to us, they will be equipped in so many more ways and ready to run the labs in the tower that you have so painstakingly worked on over the years."
"We are ready down here," the intercom buzzed.
"Father, I have accepted what is to be," Tori began. "I understand that in theory we broke one of the laws of the city, but in truth, if I could have produced the passes you gave us, this would not be happening."
Silence overpowered DeMontville's office. It was all-consuming and seemed to sound a death knell in the little room. Tori had never spoken truer words. If he had been there for them as he had promised this would not be happening. If...
"What Tori is trying to say--"
"I understand, but Quentin Morray and his trained lap dogs tied my hands. I must, for your own protection, send you away. I fear for your lives if you remain in the city. I cannot send you to the mountains as your mother wished because it isn't any safer there. Morray has spies everywhere. He hears everything and seems to know what I am thinking even before I know."
"Then no one will know where the girls are located," Lady DeMontville said, furrowing her eyebrows in anger and perhaps disbelief.
"No one."
"Do you think that is wise? What if something happens to you, Robert?" Lady DeMontville asked. "Who will be able to find them?"
"I have left directions in the codicil of my will if anything were to happen to me. I cannot tell you where the will is located."
"I'm their mother." Her
"And you thought I would allow you to send the girls away while I sat at home doing nothing."
"I've signed the papers. There is no other way." DeMontville rose, pushing his chair back with his legs. An already bad day had just grown that much worse.
"There are always options," she told him. "I will take them to the mountains. They would not need to be purified." Her voice was stiff, her eyes red and that determined tilt to her chin meant an argument she knew she couldn't win but she meant to go down fighting.
"That would not do. There are people, even friends and family who are calling for punishment. We have indulged the girls and news of their exploits reaches all places--even the mountains."
"They have my blood and they are immune. The laws are foolish and should be reexamined."
Sunlight caught her golden hair and danced around her. She was the most beautiful lady he'd ever seen. She had stolen his heart that long ago day and she still held it fast. If he had the power to grant her this wish, he would. He motioned to his desk. Her gaze followed and she nodded, seeming to understand without the words that those were all laws that were being reexamined.
"They have been changed. Just this past month. If anything the laws are harsher. The people of the cities fear the diseases that can wipe out entire populations in a blink. I cannot..."
"Will not." She defiantly crossed her arms in front of her chest. She looked at the girls then back to him. "They are only children."
"Please, I do not want to argue. The gliders will be here within the hour. I assume their bags are packed."
"We are ready, father," Tori said her head held high, a look of defiance in her beautiful grey eyes. Her mother's eyes.
"Yes, I see that." DeMontville stroked his chin. Sudden admiration for his girls filled him. "You are determined then to be brave."
"We are both brave," Nessa said, stepping up to her sister to put her arm through Tori's. "We will do this with no complaints."
"Where are they taking them?" Lady DeMontville asked. "I have a mother's right to know."
"Despite your god given rights, I cannot tell you. But I chose each of their destinations carefully. If they follow the laws, listen and respect their elders, they will develop into adults everyone will be proud of.
"I'm already proud of them."
"Of course you are and I am as well. But when they return to us, they will be equipped in so many more ways and ready to run the labs in the tower that you have so painstakingly worked on over the years."
"We are ready down here," the intercom buzzed.
"Father, I have accepted what is to be," Tori began. "I understand that in theory we broke one of the laws of the city, but in truth, if I could have produced the passes you gave us, this would not be happening."
Silence overpowered DeMontville's office. It was all-consuming and seemed to sound a death knell in the little room. Tori had never spoken truer words. If he had been there for them as he had promised this would not be happening. If...
"What Tori is trying to say--"
"I understand, but Quentin Morray and his trained lap dogs tied my hands. I must, for your own protection, send you away. I fear for your lives if you remain in the city. I cannot send you to the mountains as your mother wished because it isn't any safer there. Morray has spies everywhere. He hears everything and seems to know what I am thinking even before I know."
"Then no one will know where the girls are located," Lady DeMontville said, furrowing her eyebrows in anger and perhaps disbelief.
"No one."
"Do you think that is wise? What if something happens to you, Robert?" Lady DeMontville asked. "Who will be able to find them?"
"I have left directions in the codicil of my will if anything were to happen to me. I cannot tell you where the will is located."
"I'm their mother." Her
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