An Uncommon Family by Christa Polkinhorn

Author:Christa Polkinhorn [Polkinhorn, Christa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 1463728352
Amazon: B0053005NO
Goodreads: 12457548
Publisher: Bookworm Press
Published: 2011-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

The following few days were a blur of events. Anna lived through them barely conscious. She felt strangely removed from all the action around her. Her tear ducts seemed to have dried out. She couldn’t cry, she wasn’t able to think clearly. There was a constant pain in her chest and she occasionally wondered if she had one of those silent heart attacks she had read about.

There were visits and phone calls from airline representatives, calls and visits from friends who had heard, a call from Nico’s employer, and calls from people from the Guadalajara office. Susan and George answered most of the calls and said that Anna would call back as soon as she was able to.

Anna called her mother in Switzerland. Her mother wanted to fly to New York right away but Anna told her not to. Her mother was a good person but rather bossy and domineering and she would be completely outraged at Nico’s double life. Anna needed peace and quiet now and not the additional uproar her well-intentioned mother would certainly create.

The second phone call Anna made was to England to inform Nico’s father. Anna didn’t have the heart to call him directly, so she called his sister, Nico’s aunt. Anna felt that someone needed to give him the news in person and stay with him.

Anna had met Richard a couple of times before. He had attended their wedding in New York and they had visited him once in England. He was a somewhat withdrawn but kind person and he and Anna had gotten along really well. They had talked on the phone occasionally.

A grief-stricken Richard called Anna right after he had received the news. He, too, offered to help her but she told him that she had all the help she needed. He insisted on flying to New York and Anna couldn’t dissuade him. She invited him to stay in their apartment. She was convinced Richard didn’t know anything of Nico’s marriage to the Mexican woman. She hated the thought of having to tell him. At the same time, it might be a relief to be able to talk about it with someone who knew Nico from childhood. Perhaps he could shed some light on his past.

“What about the funeral?” Richard asked.

Anna sighed. She didn’t know what to tell him. I don’t know yet how to bury a husband who might not even be my husband. “There’s going to be a memorial service for the victims in Mexico. That’s all I know right now. The body . . .” She couldn’t verbalize the fact that there probably would not be a body. “We’ll talk about it when you get here,” she said.

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