Page 264 of Remorseless
“She’s an attorney,” he insisted. “The woman is hardcore and savage. Make it clear she can’t tell Outlaw and Johnnie until she finds the fucking will.”
“I’ll think about it, son.”
“Bash is going to kill me.”
“Who’s fucking fault is that?” she snapped.
“Mama—”
“I’ll figure something out,” she said irritably.
Outlaw had always been kind to her. His wife, Meggie, was fiercely devoted. And Johnnie…? Like a thief in the night, she’d snuck away with a part ofhim. She owed it to him to do what she could to fix the mess her son got himself—and the Dwellers by extension—into.
Yet, her plan could always backfire. Stepping back into her old life meant opening old wounds and trying to keep long hidden secrets tucked away.
Once upon a time, she’d been Seraphina Miles, a preacher and schoolteacher’s middle child with dreams of becoming a ballerina. After Mystic’s death, she’d recovered a part of that girl and lived an ordinary life hiding a sordid past.
If something didn’t change, she’d have to leave Seraphina behind again and return to the moniker she’d been given at eighteen.
Hopper.
