Blaze by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773361628
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

She reached her fingers to her forehead, wondering at the kiss. Was it just to make her feel better? Because any mention of that court case was terrifying. She’d gone through hell and high water, had even wanted to hand it all over to her family, but her lawyer had been totally against it. He’d also been her grandmother’s lawyer and understood why her grandmother hadn’t wanted the others to have as much.

“You can’t do that,” her lawyer had said firmly. “These are your grandmother’s wishes, and I understand and totally agree with her.”

“But my sisters aren’t that bad,” she’d cried out.

“And they aren’t that good either,” he’d said in the same tone. “You’re the one who came over and visited her all the time. You’re the one who spent weekends with her. You’re the one who took her around shopping, took her to the doctors. You’re the one who looked after her.”

“But my sisters would have if they’d known I would get this kind of money,” she protested.

“Exactly,” he said. “Because they would have done it in order to get the money. You didn’t know about the money, and you did it anyway.” Then he’d handed her that letter from her grandmother explaining her final wishes. That had ended the argument and had brought Camilla to tears many times since. It was a letter full of love, a letter full of joy and caring and gratitude. Camilla had kept that letter. When she had low days and days where she wanted to scream at the world, she took out the letter and read it and held it close to her heart. If nothing else, her grandmother had understood her, had seen how alone in the family she was, how isolated and how so very unlike the rest of her family she was.

Camilla had lost her father when she was fourteen. The memories hurt even today. Her parents had been in a bitter divorce just prior to his death. And that had overshadowed a lot of the loss and grief. Not on her side because she’d been completely overwhelmed with her father’s death. She’d even talked to her father about splitting off from her sisters and moving in with him before that. It had been part of the plan from the beginning, but she hadn’t told her mother.

With her father’s death, it had been more than a loss—it had been, in a way, abandonment, and Camilla knew that was so unfair. How could one feel abandoned when a person died? Her father hadn’t wanted to die; her father hadn’t committed suicide and left her alone. No, he had died in a car accident coming home late at night. A drunk driver had hit him.

Her mother had crowed about not having to lose out now through asset division in a divorce and probably getting more money from the old bat now too. And to think a lot of her grandmother’s disgust and dislike of the family had come from the death of her own son and what had happened in the immediate aftermath.

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