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Viktor reeled back, knocking over several chairs. The slap from his father’s leather glove instantly created great welts on his face. Blood trickled down his face from a gash deeper than the others. “Vater, there is no need for such violence! I am too old for you to keep hitting me as if I were a child.” Viktor sneered, his lips curling in anger as he touched his face wiping it clean. “I didn’t harm the girl at all. I was just trifling with her. She meant nothing to me.”
“I want you out of this house instantly,” the Baron commanded. He squared his shoulders, manifesting the power he gained as the celebrated boot maker that had outfitted the entire imperial army, and thundered: “How could you do such things to a child? You shame me. If your …show more content…

The temperature plummeted to below freezing. The precipitation on the ground turned into a slick varnished floor. He drew his cape closer to him and eased his horse to a slow trot. Ice formed on his dirty blond beard grown long. It covered the scar from a deep gash gained in one of his many street brawls or beatings from his father. The sleet beat against his brows and lashes forcing his lids to close tightly. His fingers grew numb despite being covered by the heavy sheepskin gloves his father had given him recently for his eighteenth birthday. I’m a man now. I don’t need my father’s care any longer; his money, yes, but not his righteousness. I’ll get the money—just give me time. It won’t take long. He’s an old man. Maybe his passing can be hurried on. How did he find out about the girl?
He drew a flask from his bag and took a long, slow drink. The flash of heat from the brandy coursed through his blood making his head spin briefly, but taking the chill off his body. The girl would have been a pleasure to me—just like all the others. I should have been more careful. Taken her into the woods so no one could hear her scream. They’re better when they’re small like that. Next time I’ll be more careful. Next time I won’t be …show more content…

Wie shäde! How sad. Katarina’s face grew darker as she thought of that scoundrel son of Baron Erhardt von Schumacher.
Disturbed by the brutal incident, she began her daily chore with greater bustle than usual. Gathering a few pieces of laundry, she passed through the narrow hallway leading into the kitchen. She vigorously stoked the warm coals still smoldering in the stove. To the coals, she added several pieces of wood from the stack of logs piled beside the stove.
She focused on their midnight discussion she had with her husband: How can we handle this terrible ordeal? Only twelve hours before, Minnie came home from school in tears, “Mutti, Viktor held me and wouldn’t let me go,” she sobbed. “He tried to make me do things that I know are wrong.” She could not bring herself to tell her mother what happened to her. Instead, she pressed her lips to her mother’s ear and through sobs, breathed out details of the assault.
Katarina held her hysterical child tightly in her copious bosom and rocked her gently until her child drifted off to sleep. Tears still clung to her child’s trusting eyes.
“I’m going to kill him,” Karl threatened, gathering his knife and

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