Read Snake (Five Ancestors #3)(25) online free by Jeff Stone

Snake (Five Ancestors #3)(25)
Author: Jeff Stone

“I want you to know, you pass through my mind every sssingle day,” AnGangseh said. “I only wanted a better life for you than Mong and I could provide.”

“I understand,” Seh said.

“Do you?” AnGangseh asked. “Do you know what it's like to hand your child over to a complete ssstranger? A ssstranger ssso cold, he gave you the name Sssnake?”

Seh stiffened and opened his eyes. He was drawn into his mother's eyes once more. “You mean my name wasn't always Seh?”

“Of course not,” AnGangseh replied. “Just like your brother Fu wasn't originally named Tiger and your brother Malao wasn't originally named Monkey. Grandmaster changed your names to better erase your pasts. He sssaid if he were to raise you, he wanted to ssstart with a clean ssslate.”

Seh shivered. “What was my name before Cangzhen?”

“Choy,” AnGangseh replied.

“Really?” Seh said. “‘Wealthy’?”

“Yes. I wanted you to grow up and amass a fortune ssso that you would not have to live as I have lived with Mong. I wanted you to live as I once lived, long ago.”

Seh's mind began to race. “Choy is a Cantonese word, and so is AnGangseh. Were you a Cangzhen warrior nun?”

AnGangseh laughed. “Me? Never.”

“Oh,” Seh said. “You really are from Canton, then?”

“Yes.”

“So, I am Cantonese?” Seh asked.

“You are half Cantonese,” AnGangseh said. “Mong is from the north. Destiny brought me and Mong here.”

Seh thought about destiny. His destiny and the destiny of others close to him. For some reason,...

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