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The Wreck of the Horstfels
Date: 11/17/2017, Categories: Taboo, Author: Rosehay, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories
CHAPTER ONE Though forty, there was still something very girlish about my step-mother Adalind. It was said that she had married my aged and ailing father during the war, more for the promise of inheriting the bungalow at his death than for any romantic reason. He died when I was eleven. The bungalow passed to my step-mother freehold. She had a widow's pension, and so we got through those difficult years on a somewhat frugal diet of fish and potatoes. The bungalow was beautifully situated at Viking Moos on a 100-foot high headland looking out over the Estuary. It was claimed by local historians that Vikings from Denmark and Schleswig had come ashore here 1200 years ago. Below the headland was a strip of beach so narrow as never to be frequented by holiday makers. Here one could take peaceful walks along the shore even in summer. The crescent of forest to the rear of the bungalow protected us against the worst of the winter winds. There I spent my happy childhood, for my step-mother Adalind saw to my every need. Her pet name for me was Wulf. So as to deter me from any idea of going to University at eighteen, when I was sixteen Adalind had explained that she wanted me to obtain work with a finance office in the local town and study internal auditing at home. Wulf had little alternative but to comply. Adalind's secret plans for herself and me, as confided to her contemporary diary, were that, "...In a few years, Wulf will be the best man of all for Adalind. His face is clear ...