Dear Mother: A gripping and emotional story that will make you sob your heart out by Angela Marsons

Author:Angela Marsons [Marsons, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786810410
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2014-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Half an hour later Catherine’s head rested on the steering wheel of her car. The tears fell unashamedly and in those moments she knew hatred she had never felt before. The fire consumed her whole being.

Their mother had done this to Alex. If Catherine knew nothing else, then she knew that. Their mother’s cruelty had damaged them all and only she was responsible for the condition in which Alex now lay in a hospital bed. She was loath to drive away, wishing she could return to Alex’s side, but the ward sister had made it clear that Alex needed her rest and that Catherine had visited for long enough.

Catherine took deep breaths to stem the emotions raging through her. She wanted revenge. She wanted her mother before her now. For the first time in her life Catherine felt capable of murder.

She fought the tears away, pushing the image of Alex’s battered body to the back of her mind. She needed to talk to someone and there was only one person who could help. She reached for her mobile phone and rang the number on the card in her purse.

The call transferred to an answering machine and a wave of hopelessness settled around her. Never had she felt so alone.

‘Emily, it’s Catherine Richards. If you’re there please pick up. I need to talk to someone. I think I’m going mad. My sister has been beaten to within an inch of her life and—’

‘Catherine?’ Emily’s voice was warm and concerned and a relief to Catherine as the darkness stole around her stationary car.

‘Please help me. It’s all falling apart. I don’t know what to do.’

Silence met her ears.

‘Please,’ she whispered in desperation. She could understand the woman’s reticence. It was almost ten at night.

‘Okay, you know where I am.’

Catherine almost cried with relief. ‘Thank you, thank—’

‘And, Catherine, drive carefully.’

Catherine ended the call.

She left the city centre with Emily’s words ringing in her ears. The winding country lanes were filled with visions of her sister lying silent and hurting on a hospital bed. The car lurched forward as anger reached into every cell of her being. She clenched the steering wheel hard, afraid of the intensity of her emotions.

Relief flooded her body as she pulled up outside the house of the therapist, but she was dismayed when she realised that she could barely recall the journey.

Emily had the door open before she’d left the confines of the car.

‘I’m sorry for calling you so late,’ Catherine said. ‘But I just didn’t know who else I could talk to.’

Emily waved away her apology and guided her past the closed door of the office. Beyond a heavy wooden door was a kitchen fashioned of light pinewood and glass panels displaying kitchen wares. Illumination was provided by lights that shone from beneath the cabinets. Two football mugs steamed on a small wicker table.

Catherine instantly began to relax.

‘Don’t worry. I was watching a re-run of Frost on my own. So what’s happened?’

Catherine told her about the phone call from the hospital and described Alex in detail.

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