Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3)

by Chloe Walsh

I could take the pressure. I could take the blows. I could handle his whiskey tantrums. I could take it all if it meant that they didn’t have to. Like a revered blood oath, I mentally reaffirmed the vow I had made to myself the night after Darren walked out, and that was to protect my brothers and sister with everything I had in me. I would never allow them to be beaten like I had been, or abused like our mother, or defiled like our brother. With whatever I had inside of me, I would protect and defend them from harm. They would never have to sit behind a barricaded bedroom door with a hurley in hand. I would be here to do it for them. I knew what it felt like to have my protector abandon me, and I would never allow that to happen to them. Yeah, fuck Darren for leaving our brothers and sister to fend for themselves against a monster. Fuck him for making me our father’s number one punching bag. You’ve always been that, lad…