"If Mark really loves you, I mean, if he wants to marry you... Well, I will help you, one way or another.”It had been five years since Eden uttered these words and helped her sister Selene escape with the boy she had been in love with since childhood, Mark Foster, the son of a local squire.And it has now been nine months since she had taken the youngest, Hannah, in her arms and promised to help her escape, too, from the oppression and tyranny of their father - that Puritan convinced that omegas were the prey of sin and that they should be kept away, willingly or by force, of all temptation.The dreamer Selene and the sensitive Hannah withered under the yoke of their father, dreaming after another life, made of laughter, music, books. And love."Yes, especially of love," Eden thought, resting the watering can next to the green plants. The Reverend Chase had difficulty tolerating flowers in his church, but he hoped that ivy vines and other darkly foliated plants would help remind his
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