The Zelenograd Trilogy Book Three: Repatriate

Written and Created by: Mary Ann Moody

The Zelenograd Trilogy Book Three: Repatriate – I gasped as a man stepped into the candlelight. Gone was his beard and long black hair. His identity as the Pirate no longer existed. From him, Jacob Kramer emerged from the shadows and began to live again.

“Jacob?” I asked in shock when I recognize his face. It couldn’t be Jacob.

“It’s me, Anna.” He said softly and extended his arms out to me.

I ran to him. His arms engulfed my small frame and hugged me tightly to him. My face found a perfect place to nestle on his shoulder. I breathed his scent into me. He smelled like a mixture of wood and the sea, something much different than I remembered. Large tears fell from my face as I cried into his chest. I clung to this moment with Jacob as if it would last forever.

“Did you ….paint all these paintings of me?” I whispered as I stared at them.

Jacob nodded his head. “I did. I didn’t want to forget the beautiful blonde I risked my life for. You look like Regina, but I recognize your soul.”

I pulled my face out of his shoulder and wiped my tears away. “They told me you were dead.”

“Who told you?” He asked me as his hands attempted to wipe away my tears.

“Katie. She said Judge Slider signed your death certificate. You died in Caterpillar Canyon.”

“I never went to Caterpillar Canyon. Slider sent me to Silence Island. I was a prisoner there until William busted me out.”

“The Island? Why did he send you there?”

“Do you remember the night you rescued Sarah from Miss Maxine in the attic of the Academy? I saw you leave your room that night and followed you to the attic. I was the guard who saw you hiding in the shadows. I snuck into the attic the secondary way, put on one of the uniforms, and allowed you to get the upper hand against Miss Maxine. Once Miss Maxine discovered me, I ended up on the Island.

When I was there ….something made me forget who I was. I couldn’t remember, not even the night Sarah and I burned down the Academy. Only when I saw you just now did I finally remember who I am. But tell me about my sister. Where is she? My parents?”

I muttered a vulgar word to myself when he asked the dreaded questions. I did not want to be the one to tell him about his family, but there was no one else. “Um, Katie and your mother is alive ….I think, but your father passed on. I don’t know when he died. Oh, Jacob! How did you survive all these years? How are you alive?”

“Are Katie and my mother still in Lee?”

“I think so. They were when I was taken. She was Regina’s best friend, you know. Even though she was forced to betray her all those times, Katie never stopped being her friend. We’ll get them back, Jacob. I promise.”

“I know we will. I’m ….just happy to heat they’re alive. After all these years, I thought they were dead. I thought I was an orphan.” He chuckled. I saw tears brimming along his eyes. He did not wish to cry in front of me, so he spoke quickly. “Um, after William helped me escape the Island, I became a Whisper. It’s Slider’s curse on them that keeps me alive, but I didn’t think it kept anyone else alive.”

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The Zelenograd Trilogy Book Three: Repatriate

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