title: An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love
author:  Caitr&iacute;ona Palmer 
description: <DIV>&quot;Palmer . . . &#160;writes very movingly of the dislocation of the adoptee.&quot; &mdash;<I>Sunday Express</I></DIV>
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  Sold to the Berserkers
  A ménage shifter romance
  By Lee Savino
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  The day my stepfather sold me to the Berserkers, I woke at dawn with him leering over me. “Get
  up.” He made to kick me and I scrambled out of my sleep stupor to my feet. “I need your help with a
  delivery.”
  I nodded and glanced at my sleeping mother and siblings. I didn’t trust my stepfather around my
  three younger sisters, but if I was gone with him all day, they’d be safe. I’d taken to carrying a dirk
  myself. I did not dare kill him; we needed him for food and shelter, but if he attacked me again, I
  would fight.
  My mother’s second husband hated me, ever since the last time he’d tried to take me and I had
  fought back. My mother was gone to market, and when he tried to grab me, something in me snapped. I
  would not let him touch me again. I fought, kicking and scratching, and finally grabbing an iron pot
  and scalding