Delicious and Deadly by CC MacKenzie

Author:CC MacKenzie [MacKenzie, CC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: More Press
Published: 2014-12-03T07:00:00+00:00

Oscar cleared his throat.

"If you look at the handwriting very carefully, you'll see it's not a particularly good forgery. You do realise your mother wrote it?" he asked in a soft voice, as if to gentle the blow.

Blinking rapidly, Emma's eyes stayed glued to the floor.

She couldn't look at him.

“Yes,” she whispered.

“Do you know why she did it?”

Her hand fisted around the letter.

“Yes. I want to apologise to you on my mother’s behalf, Oscar. Her thoughts and opinions on certain subjects utterly shame me.”

"Look at me."

It cost her, but she lifted her head.

The compassion that burned in those dark eyes, for her, almost broke her.

However, it was the pity she saw there, too, that had her chin wobble.

“You have nothing to apologise for, Emma. You are not responsible for the actions of your mother. I’m sorry that by lashing out at me, she hurt you, she hurt us.”

Emma's throat burned.

His face blurred.

She became aware that Oscar was standing too close, of the sound of his breathing, the scent of his familiar cologne. The realisation of how much she'd lost, they'd lost, threatened to break her. And all at the hands of her own mother.

She wanted to throw herself into his arms, but it was too late for that now.

Oscar had a new life.

Instead she turned, moved away.

"What happened with your husband?"

Emma stopped dead, didn't turn around.

After everything that had happened between then, everything that had been revealed, the one thing Oscar deserved was the truth, nothing but the truth.

But now wasn't the time.

Her brain needed time to process, to think.

Emma knew she was on the edge of a breakdown, she recognised the signs.

And knew she couldn't take any more of this.

She battled like a warrior to drag oxygen into burning lungs.

The result was unsteady breath.

"Our relationship was... all wrong... a big mistake. It didn’t work out. And I don’t want to talk about it."

"Emma..."

She shook her head, kept walking.

"I worked through the night. I need a shower. Perhaps we can talk later?"

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