An Eternity in a Moment by K Carothers

Author:K Carothers [Carothers, K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction > General
ISBN: 9781643880020
Published: 2018-11-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter

13

The dam burst, and a river of pain raged through Erin, wild and unstoppable, washing away all the barriers to its flow in her mind. The river was filled with years and years of unacknowledged pain and grief that had slowly built up behind that dam, pushing against it, wearing it away, waiting to be set free.

And she thought she had set it free with all the tears she’d cried over the last few weeks. But they’d just escaped from a crack in the dam. Now the whole thing was collapsing inside her.

Erin felt her body shake with the force of it as she sat in the sand by the pond with her arms wrapped around her legs, blindly watching the sunset. And when it became too much to bear, she dropped her forehead to her knees and helplessly sobbed, from the very bottom of her soul.

After a while she felt a hand gently squeeze her shoulder. “Everything is going to be okay,” Jenna softly said. “Luke will call.”

Erin lifted her head, letting the tears continue to fall unheeded down her cheeks. “It’s not just Luke. It’s everything—everything that’s happened to us. To me. To you. To your mom. My mom…Oh God, Jenna, I miss my mom.” She buried her head in her hands and continued to cry. “I need her. I’ve needed her so many times…It’s not fair. I want—I want my mom back.”

“Erin…” Jenna sat down and gathered her into her arms. “I know. I know.”

“It’s so wrong. She shouldn’t—she shouldn’t have died like that. And I hate my father for what he did. God, I hate him…I can’t believe he’s free. He’s free, but my mom is dead. And I—I have to spend the rest of my life without her.”

Jenna didn’t say anything, just held Erin close until the deep, wracking sobs subsided. Then she fished some tissues out of her sweater pocket. “Here, I think we need these again.”

Erin sat back and blew her nose. But she couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. There were just too many things she’d never let herself cry about before. “It’s because of me that a child in Boston doesn’t have a mother, either. And I think about him all the time, wondering if he’s going to be okay.” She briefly paused, drawing in a shuttered breath. “I never told you about that. It happened the day of the pileup in Boston. A pregnant woman came in, and I had to do an emergency C-section to save the baby. But I couldn’t save her. She died at about the same time her baby let out his first cry just a few feet away.”

“I heard about that on the news,” Jenna whispered. “They never said who the doctor was, and I had really hoped it wasn’t you.”

“Oh, it was me all right,” Erin said, brushing away the tears on her cheeks. “And an hour before that I was right there when they brought in some of the survivors of the bus crash.

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