Caroline's Inheritance
Copyright© 2023 by Harry
Chapter 7
A few days after the pair had drunk Grace’s homemade cider and awakened bleary eyed and none too well the next morning, an incident happened. They had just pulled up a row of potatoes and were taking them to the cellar to store in the dark, when they noticed two young men coming towards them. They were patently not nice young men. They were drunk and abusive young men. Catching sight of the two naked young women, they immediately made in their direction, expressing in short and extremely obscene words, what they were about to do to the young couple.
“What are we going to do, Grace” asked an apprehensive Caroline.
“Not ‘we’, my dear! It is what you are going to do! These thugs are on your property. You must defend your inheritance and get rid of them. Go on! Chase them off!”
“How can I, Grace? I’m just a girl and they are two strong young men.”
“Go and chuck them off your land, Caroline! I will never speak to you again if you don’t! You learned self-defense, didn’t you? Now’s your chance to show what you can do. Go and do it!”
“Could you do what you are telling me to do?”
“Yes! I have done it, and I still have the scars to prove how hard it was! It will be hard for you also, my darling, but you have no other choice. Go on!”
So, a petrified Caroline, spurred on by the inexorable refusal of her friend to lift a finger to help her -telling her rather, that the time had come to fight her own battle for her own land - advanced towards the sneering and jeering couple of hooligans.
“You two are trespassing and damaging growing crops by walking across my property. You will please leave.”
“And who’s going to make us if we don’t, darling!”
“I will! You have ten seconds to be on your way.”
Before she had time to start counting, one of the two lunged towards her, in an effort to bring her to the ground, the better to have his way with her. (Euphemism for rape - Author.). She kicked up hard and caught him in the throat. He staggered back, choking and gasping.
His companion was not quite so slow and he aimed a mighty punch at Caroline’s head which would have removed it from her shoulders had she not ducked away in time. Even so, he opened up a cut over her left eye, which immediately began bleeding copiously. She knew she must do something quickly, before her vision became too obscured for her to continue.
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