Begin Again Novel Eden Mcbride Novels & Stories

a faraway town and his family held a lot of power here. That night when everyone else had gone to sleep, both of his uncles proceeded to beat him black and blue. They left him in a slightly better condition than he left the boy in. He wouldn't be getting any food for a week. But he didn't need food. He laid in his tattered bed for more than an hour before passing out from the pain. But strangely enough, he slept like a king that night, feeling content for some strange reason. But life was mostly uneventful. *** His birth mother would come to him in secret every other day after sunset with food and she would tell him stories of a better life. That's what he would dream about every night

He nodded and said, “Shall I escort you to your chambers now Madame?” I nodded and together we headed off towards the lower portions of the ship. It was a silent journey and as we walked I reflected on the course of the ship. In the two weeks prior I had flown as instructed to Brazil waited to board the ship docked at the harbor there. As we reached the door of my cabin I took a chance and asked, “Could you at least tell me where we are going?” He paused for a long moment before saying, “I suppose at this point it won’t matter. We are heading for Eden.”

Blake had held a little hope for Sadie, but all his hopes were now gone. He lowered his eyes. There was a self-deprecatory look in them. "You don't remember me, do you? "Do you remember helping a boy in a wheelchair fifteen years ago, on the night of New Year's Eve?" Sadie frowned as she tried to remember. Her memory went back more than a decade. It was New Year's Eve that night. Sadie's mother had not gotten sick yet, and they were managing to get by. Her mother wanted Sadie to buy some drinks back home. Sadie saw a group of kids bullying a young boy in a wheelchair outside the supermarket.