The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 26

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“Father, Mother, I brought a gift.” He called out loudly.

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“Where the hell have you been?” Jack spun on his heel to scold his son and then his eyes widened as he saw the woman standing at his son’s side. “Jacqueline,” he breathed her name reverently as he crossed the room to grip her hands happily. “You came.”

“Jack froze my door, convinced me to let him in and then somehow I’m here.” She blinked up at the large man who was nearly weeping at the sight of her. “Hi,” she whispered.

“Hello again.” He looked at his son and mouthed the words, “thank you” and then cleared his throat loudly. “There is someone very important I would like you to meet,” he took her across the room to where a woman was sitting in an oversized plush chair, curled up in a ball with her arms wrapped around her legs.

Jacqueline stared at the woman, her heart thundering so hard against her chest, her ribs actually ached from it. The woman stared back, her eyes seemingly vacant but then as she slowly seemed to recognize who was standing in front of

flicker of clarity filled her eyes.

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“Winika, she is home, our Jacqueline is home.”

“Hello,” she whispered to the woman whose bottom lip was trembling wildly.

“Jacqueline,” the woman’s voice was hoarse as if she’d been crying for days. “My Jacqueline?”

“This is her.”

“It can’t be. She was a baby. This is a woman.” The woman turned to a vase of flowers and whispered to them, “is this

her?”

Jacqueline exchanged a look with her brother Jack who seemed uncomfortable.

“Winika, my love, this is her, our daughter. She was found in New York, as I said. She came to see you in person.”

The woman held her hand out and waved it impatiently at Jacqueline, “hold my hand.”

“Um, okay,” she felt strangely nervous as it dawned on her this woman was loony. Maybe she should have stayed home.

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The woman gripped her by the wrist and yanked her closer

and sniffed her palm before tracing the lines in it. She looked

over her shoulder at Jack and her father, but they were both

tense and barely moving. What the hell was wrong with these people? Then suddenly the woman gave a loud wail, the sound reverberating around the room and she was throwing herself out of her chair around Jacqueline and tackling her to

the floor. “What the fuck?”

The woman squealed, tears sliding down her face, “it is my blood, my child, my baby. She is home. My child is home.

Look at her.” The woman was writhing all over Jacqueline and Jacqueline was desperate to get out from under her.

“Mother, you are scaring Jacqueline,” Jack protested the

woman’s actions.

“I am covering her in my scent so I will always find her!” the

woman bellowed at the top of her lungs. “I will never lose my

baby again.”

Jacqueline was trying to scramble away from the wriggling

woman.

“What is going on in here?” a voice from the doorway made

Winika freeze.

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“Your sister is home, Jacinta. She is here! Look! Here she is!” Winika screamed excitedly, her hands flailing erratically.

Jacqueline decided this woman wasn’t loony. She was batshit crazy with a good dose of fucking nuts thrown in for good measure. She wanted to scamper away but the two oversized men in the room were standing back as if worried

about getting in Winika’s space. She shot Jack a dirty look for

not protecting her like he promised. Her eyes moved to the

startled woman in the doorway.

Immediately, Jacqueline felt threatened. She didn’t know why. She didn’t know what it was. However, the woman,

supposedly her sister, had a whole other crazy expression in her eyes which wasn’t anything like her mother’s. This woman was the kind of crazy which made Jacqueline think of serial killers and phony drama queens. Instantly, Jacqueline’s hackles were raised. The woman was dressed in a gauzy

pink dress which flowed as if it breathed on its own.

“Oh, my darling sister, you are home!” the woman gave a dramatic squeal, raced to her, and flung her arms around

her neck.

The woman was squeezing her so tight, Jacqueline could

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barely gasp in a breath.

“Jacinta, isn’t it wonderful?” Winika squealed happily as she flung her arms around both of the women. “I’m hugging both of my girls! Look at this Jack!”

“I see, my queen.”

Jacqueline looked to the men and whispered, “help.”

Somehow they thought it was funny, and both chuckled at her response. Their response made her feel overwhelmed and angry. There was no respect for her personal space, her wellbeing and the way Jacinta’s fingernails were digging

into her back like daggers were telling her while one of the women hugging her was simply lost in exuberance the other was hurting her with purpose.

“Enough!” Jacqueline snapped and managed to push out of the weird group hug. “I don’t feel comfortable with all this touching. I’m not a touchy person.”

“You are fae!”

“Which I only found out about today and I don’t like this,” she

was scooting backwards on her butt and hands away from

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the stares of the Frost family. “It’s too much.”

“Oh dear, you’ve been away from your family for so long you don’t know how it all works. Poor Jacqueline,” Jacinta’s voice was saccharine sweet. “I will personally help you adjust. I’m so happy to have my little sister here. Don’t be frightened little one,” she reached her hand out to Jacqueline like she was coaxing a kitten and Jacqueline slapped it away. “Oh, dear, why did you slap me?”

“What is wrong with you?” Jacqueline stared at her. “I’m not frightened of you. I’m uncomfortable with your intrusive

behavior.”

Jacinta started to cry, “she hates me. I just found my sister and she hates me already.”

Jacqueline watched in awe as the woman drew the attention to herself and her parents and Jack immediately raced to her to console her and reassure her. Jacqueline’s nose shriveled up in disbelief.

Jack looked at her seriously, “there was no need to hit her, Jacqueline.”

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I’m not so desperate for a family that I’ll be manipulated by a woman who makes crocodile tears and you all pander to her. I’m out.” She saw the shock on Jack’s face and the frown on her father’s face as Jacinta wailed about how her baby sister hated her. She held up two fingers, “peace.” She closed her eyes, envisioned her living room, and left.