Rainbow Snippet 3/13/2021

 

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More than six, I know, but Midnight Moon Hollow was finished last night, and I'll be starting on the second book, so, this is the last snippet from book 1. 

“Did you want me gone so bad you had to do this?” Raine asked him.

“I’ve never wanted you gone,” Noah declared. “But it isn’t like you’ve ever been happy being here. You’re my brother, but we aren’t family, not really. You curse my very existence every time you talk about my mom. I’ve always tried to tell myself to be patient. That it had to have sucked losing your mom the way you did. That someday you’d see we loved you too and that your mother had filed your head with lies.”

“Malcom never loved me,” Raine said softly. “I’m sure he’s thrilled to finally rid himself of the defect. The last bit of proof of what he did to my mother will be out of his hair forever, erased like it never happened.”

“He’s never called you a defect.” Noah said. “The only person who would have said that to you would be your mother. Because she wanted you to hate him the way she hated him. Because she was jealous and insecure, and I don’t know what else.”

“There was nothing wrong with my mother!” Raine snarled, lunging for Noah only to be shoved to the ground by Holden.

“I almost feel bad for you,” Holden said as he loomed over him. “You clearly loved her, as any child should, but it’s made you blind to the truth. There are two sides to every story, and in refusing to listen to your father’s, you’ve perpetrated a cycle of anger and jealousy that’s done nothing but hurt the rest of your family.”