Twisted Fate - J. Busch (chapter books to read to 5 year olds .TXT) 📗

fill with rage. Almost as if she had no remorse of what she was about to do.
“ I only have on question” she shouted.
“Why didn’t you look for me when i left”
After saying that Jenna’s memory started to become clear. She did remember that night. She was coming down to the kitchen for a glass of milk when she heard the scream from the basement. Not sure of what was going on she rushed down only to see her father over top of her mother with his hands around her throat. Jenna let out a scream which alerted her father. Leon then turned to see his little girl stricken with fear. He try to grab her before she ran off but she slipped out of his grip.
Then one thing came to her memory that left her speechless for a moment. When she ran out of the house and up the tree Max was there. He sat under that tree all night until she finally came down the next morning. Max took her far away from there. To the ocean. The cliff that she had been on earlier that day was right outside her home. The picture that was taken two weeks ago was with Max who was her husband. Why couldn’t she remember this before. Why couldn’t she remember the last eleven years. Before Leon could even answer that question Max walked over and bent down next to her and said
“ He did look for you. I ran him off several times because i feared losing you and feared what he may of done to you if i let you go back”
She sat there with a puzzled look on her face. Not really knowing what to do next. Leon grunted in pain from the beating he had gotten from max prior. She turned to look at him and he was trying to say something. She leaned in closer to try and hear what he was saying.
“ i never would of hurt you” he whispered
With a few bats of her eyes she turned away from him as if what he said didn’t have any meaning. As she turned she saw a book laying face down under a table. She walked over to it and picked it up. It was a journal. Her mother’s journal. Leon must of been reading it the night he killed her. Jenna opened the front of it and it read:
JULY 17th
Leon has began to lose all control of himself. After Jenna was born with amnesia he has tried everything to cure her. I can’t make him understand that there is no cure. There is no use. He doesn’t want to believe that his daughter is sick and won’t get better. He has opened up this hospital for the mentally insane thinking he might find his answer here. I’m not sure how he thinks this will help but i will support him in anyway i can.
Jenna flipped through a couple of pages when one page caught her eye. It seems as if the writing was different on this one. As if her mother was upset but yet happy when she wrote this entry.
SEPTEMBER 4th
His work has consumed him and he has no time for me. Our daughter is growing so quickly and seems to be his main focus. I just want to happy. Is that too much to ask. Robert has come to me several times this week. Our time together has only been mutual but i want it to be so much more. I need to feel him in a way that i don’t Leon anymore. I just want him to make me happy as i was once before.
As Jenna began to read on she couldn’t hardly believe what was happening. Then she finally pieced the puzzle together after reading the last entry that was written in the journal. The day before her mother was killed.
OCTOBER 16th
I think Leon knows. Yesterday as I was putting the dishes away he stood in the doorway staring at me as if he wanted to say something but wasn’t quite sure how to. I feel as if he is watching me all the time. As if he knows about Robert. I fear for what he might do to him once he finds out about the last several months. I fear for what he might do to me or worst our daughter. I plan to leave him soon. Take Jenna and run as far as I can in hopes that he will never find us. If only I can find the right time to do it without him noticing. Maybe there is hope out there for us still.
Jenna closed the book and held it closely to her chest. A tear begin to run down her face as she thought about what she had just read. After a few moments she wiped her tears and headed towards Leon in a bought of fury.

CHAPTER 8
Questions and Answers

She untied him and set him up against the wall. She figured at this point, he was too weak to hurt her. Kneeled on the floor next to him she looked him straight in the eye. Without an expression on her face she said
“ Why would you do that to my own mother?” “ She just wanted us to be a family for you to love her.”
With a quick gasp of air Leon looked at her with dark drawn eyes and said in a hateful voice
“ She wanted to take you away from me and I would not have it.” with another breathe he countined “you were mine and if I couldn’t have you then no one else will”
Jenna threw the book down at Leon and turned to walk towards Max. As she looked up from the ground she seen Max with a gun pointing straight at Leon. At first Jenna begin to shout don’t kill him but held herself back and didn’t say a word. She put her arm around Max and watched as he let off a couple of rounds out of the magnum .44. Leon flopped around for a moment before becoming still. Jenna didn’t even check to see if he was dead. She looked up at Max with a relief in her face and said
“ Let’s go home”
Max with a smile on his face wrapped his arm around Jenna’s waist and the both of them begin to climb the old wooden stairs that led to the kitchen.
Jenna gathered some things of her mothers before walking out the front door of that old abandoned house. As she turned to shut the creaking old door she said with a shout
“I’ll never forget what you did to me, Dad” she turned and walked away from the life she couldn’t remember for so long with the memory of something she knew she would never forget.

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Publication Date: 03-18-2009

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Dedication:
To My Husband who has always been there for me