Christopher D Roe Embracing Darkness (retail) (ep

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.He’s now making me marry him… That is, you.”Willy couldn’t believe what he was hearing.He was speechless, his mouth so wide open that Olivia could see his tonsils.“My father will set us up financially in the next town.He will support us very well, financially speaking.We won’t ever have to worry about money.”Willy interrupted her.“Just hold on here, missy.You sayin’ you wanna marry me?”Olivia, visibly revolted, answered, “Absolutely not, but I can’t lose my inheritance, and that’s what he’s threatening to take away from me.I can’t tell my parents why I’m pregnant.”Willy smiled and started to move toward her.When she stepped back, he stopped but nodded slowly.“Just how much money we talkin’, missy?”“Just over eighty-six thousand dollars.”He whistled as his eyes widened.“Damn, sister!” he exclaimed, loud enough for a few passersby to take notice of the two of them and wonder what someone like her was doing with the likes of him.“But if we do this,” Olivia said, “you’ll never touch me.Understand? Or else I’ll come clean about what you did, and you’ll spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.”“Or I can just as easily say you was askin’ for it, miss high and mighty!” he spat back at her.“No one would believe you,” she replied angrily, although she didn’t believe what she was saying.That was part of the reason why she felt compelled to marry the man who had raped her.She was afraid of what people would think.She paused, unable to believe that she was proposing to marry her rapist and live under the same roof with him.She continued, “We’ll live in the same house but sleep in different rooms.Do you agree?”For Willy there was nothing to think over.He had lost his job a few months before and was doing odd jobs around town, making very little and barely able to keep his room while paying for his drinking.Now, suddenly, he was eighty-six thousand dollars richer.“Yeah, I agree.Hell, there ain’t nuthin’ to think over! Come here, darlin’!”He went for her, attempting to put his arm around her waist, but she pushed him away with the heels of her hands.She then took him to Lieberman’s Men’s Store and had old man Isador Lieberman fit Willy into a new suit.After that she guided him to Mangiacavallo’s Barber Shop, where Luigi Mangiacavallo gave Willy a proper haircut and shave befitting a gentleman of that time.Mr.and Mrs.Eric Lindsay were dressed to the nines on the Sunday afternoon when Willy Black came to meet them for the first time.They knew how prudent their daughter was when it came to the men whom she allowed to court her.They assumed that the baby’s father would meet that standard.Mrs.Lindsay carried in her arms an expensive tea service on a silver tray.It rattled a little at first, an obvious reaction to the nervousness she felt at meeting her daughter’s fiancé.Mr.Lindsay had one cigar locked tightly between his teeth with another in his hand, which he’d planned to offer his future son-in-law.Upon seeing Willy for the first time, Mr.and Mrs.Lindsay couldn’t believe their eyes.They stood like marble statues before the young couple, completely flabbergasted.It was an understatement to say that it was hard for the Lindsays to pretend to be happy with what they saw before them.The tea service rattled even more now.Although he seemed well-to-do, wearing an expensive suit and being neatly groomed, their daughter’s fiancé was unprepossessing.He had poor posture and swayed his upper body from side to side when he walked.What’s more, his grammar was atrocious, worse even than of their servants, many of whom came from desperately poor parts of the state.And this man also spoke with a heavy Southern drawl, which caused Mrs.Lindsay to drop the entire tea set she’d been carrying.Their daughter was marrying a rebel.Willy Black and Olivia Lindsay were married the following week and left that night for Holly.A nice house, already fully paid for by Eric Lindsay, awaited them there.Zachary Black, born in early 1915, was Willy Black and Olivia Lindsay Black’s only child.What can be said about Zachary as an infant is easily summarized.He was an unhappy baby, preferring to spend most of his time in his crib, and he hated it when anyone picked him up.Two years later, as a toddler, his melancholy continued.Olivia tried a few times to take him to the park, but he only cried and threw tantrums when she put him in a swing or the sandbox.Being at home in his room was where Zachary wanted to be and preferred to stay.By the time he was five, it became evident that Zachary Black was his father’s son.He was showing signs of taking pleasure in destruction, thrashing bushes with a stick to knock off as many leaves as he could.As brutal as he was becoming, however, Zachary feared only one person, and that was his father.He was indifferent to his mother, basically because she was the same way to him.His parents had no real friends in town, and Zachary had no playmates.His parents were thus the only people he’d ever known, and between them one ignored him while the other beat him.From as far back as the boy could remember, his father physically abused him.Whether he was drunk or sober, Willy’s fist always found itself in the boy’s face.Zachary often got black eyes and bloody noses, although up to this point he had never had his nose broken.All of the boy’s baby teeth were knocked out, instead of being allowed to come out on their own.It started when Zachary found his first loose tooth at almost six years old.When Willy punched him in the mouth, Zachary cried as he spit the tooth out along with a mouthful of blood.Olivia didn’t even flinch.She just shouted, “WILLY! NOT AT THE TABLE!”By age eight Zachary had turned his cruelty from plants to animals, ironically reversing the pattern of his father who had started with torturing small animals and going on to kill trees.After he had become a “family man,” Willy’s brutality against animals ceased.You could argue that it was because after coming into money he’d given up the life of a serial rodent killer.He now had the wherewithal to drink as much as he wanted, gamble to his heart’s content, and pay for countless whores to satisfy his manhood.Yet Zachary would become something much worse than his father.A contrast between Willy and Zachary is that Zachary had a father who was always around, a father who would beat him every chance he got while his mother did nothing to stop it since she had never cared about Zachary because of what he represented—a terrible act of cruelty and a merciless crime.And her rape-engendered offspring reminded his mother of all the things she couldn’t be, the wife and mother of a loving family.Zachary was the brick wall that kept her from all the things she could never have: a close relationship with her parents, family, and friends, the life she had known as a child.Willy respected the wishes of his wife and never once attempted her during their marriage [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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