Chapter Ten

Tash could not help herself, she was so frightened and so alone that the whole horrible experience spilled out and the tears fell down her cheeks, and just as she expected she could see the couple was appalled by her story

‘I’m so sorry, it's a nightmare for me but it's none of your business.’

She said quietly,

‘I’ll go back to my room and collect my stuff and you can get my bill ready. I’ll just leave quietly you don’t need my problems, these are seriously scary people.’

‘Now you just sit back down there and wait one minute Missy’

Marianne stood up and walked around the big kitchen table toward Tash,

‘You are staying right here and John-Joe and I will look after you, no one deserves what you have gone through. Seems to us you could use a little Mothering right now and we’d like to offer ourselves for the post’

She smiled and then held out her arms enveloping Tash in a tight hug trying to reassure the crying teenager, rubbing her back as she broke into sobs

‘Why are you doing t