Discovered Memories (The Discovered Truth Series Book 2) by Julie Bawden-Davis

Author:Julie Bawden-Davis [Bawden-Davis, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Roses Are Red Publishing
Published: 2019-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

A couple of hours later, Alexa began to nod off at her laptop, so she lay back on the bed and began to dream. She stood alone on the edge of the jungle, afraid to enter the thick tapestry of greenery where the boa constrictors slithered through the padded earth. Then she was a little girl again, walking down the hallway at the ranch. She heard a muffled cry and her mother plead, “Please! No!”

When she peered into her parent’s room, she saw Uncle Freddy on top of Mama.

“What are you looking at, you worthless half-breed?” her uncle sneered.

“Leave Mama alone!” Alexa screamed, running into the room with her fists raised. “I’ll tell Papa.”

“Your papa ain’t here, and he won’t believe you anyway, you little liar.”

“Papa will believe me, and I’m going to tell him.”

Uncle Freddy rose from the bed and knocked her to the floor with the back of his hand. Then he turned back to Augustina. “You tell your brat to keep her mouth shut, or I’ll kill you both. I got friends in high places, and you know it.” He buckled his belt and then stalked out of the room and stormed down the hall, leaving the stench of alcohol and sweat.

Alexa ran to her mother, who lay on the bed pulling her clothing around her.

“Did he hurt you, Mama?”

“No. Thanks to you. You’re the angel God sent to save me.”

“Papa should make Uncle Freddy leave.”

“I will talk to your father. Te quiero mucho, mi amor.”

“I love you, too, Mama,” Alexa said as her mother locked the bedroom door and invited her to curl up in the nook of her arm.

Alexa woke with a start, the weight of the memory long since buried pinning her chest to the bed and sucking the air out of her lungs.

After all of these years, she finally remembered why she hated Uncle Freddy so much! He attacked her mother. Was that why Mama had left? To get away from him? But why didn’t she take Alexa with her? A timid knock on the door interrupted Alexa’s memories. “Who is it?” she called out.

“It is Arturo, Señorita Alexa.”

She pulled the door open and smiled down at Miguel’s child as he handed her a small piece of paper.

“Gracias,” she said, giving him the five pesos in change she had crammed in the front pocket of her jeans after breakfast.

“Qué bueno!” Arturo smiled, and then ran back downstairs.

Alexa closed the door and sat on her bed, opening the small piece of paper that simply said—St. Caterina’s seven o’clock.

She glanced at the time. Almost six o’clock. She needed at least forty-five minutes to make her way to the old church, which sat on the outskirts of town. Macaw wasn’t answering, and Rodolfo didn’t want his church to know he was involved, so she’d have to go alone. This lead could be the big break that she needed, and who knew if Padre Pedro would risk another meeting.

She dressed in what she had come to call

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