Elastic Heart: (The Happy Endings Resort Book 6) by Evelyne Stone

Author:Evelyne Stone [Stone, Evelyne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapt

er 7

After a very long hour in the local boutique, trying on clothes I would never wear, I found the perfect outfit for a night by the beach. Brooke kept pushing me to go for a low-cut tank, but my chest wasn’t big enough to show off. I picked a dark beige, lace hoodie and cut-off denim shorts that showed off my legs.

“All right, I suckered her into staying one more hour,” Brooke said, getting off the phone with her babysitter. “Let’s go in.”

We were parked outside of my dad’s trailer.

“Come on,” she said, taking the keys from my hand.

I followed her, dragging my feet.

The inside looked bigger without the couch. Brooke went directly into the bedroom. She came out a minute later, holding up a laptop, smiling like she’d won the lottery.

“You’re really enjoying this, aren’t you?” I asked. I took a seat at the table.

She giggled. “We have drama happening around here all the time, but this is my first opportunity to have a front row seat.”

“You’re a terrible friend.”

“No, I’m not,” she rolled her eyes at me. “If it wasn’t for me, you’d be crying in the corner.”

Damn, she was right.

“Hopefully, this isn’t password protected,” I hoped, opening the laptop and starting it up.

No password was required. The desktop didn’t have much and the files that were there were alphabetized. I clicked on the “Divorce” file, while Brooke watched over my shoulder.

“Looks like your typical legal bullshit,” she said.

The child support documents jumped out at me. He’d been ordered to pay my mom almost $700 a month.

“She always told me he didn’t help her out,” I accidentally said out loud.

“Hmmm,” Brooke replied.

I closed the files, not understanding any of it.

“What’s that one?” she asked, pointing to a folder marked “Evidence.”

The folder contained pdf’s, all of them named using dates. I opened the first one.

“These are screen shots of emails between my mom and Matt. Why would he have these?”

“I don’t know,” Brooke replied, moving in closer to the screen. “Looks like these were written when they were first getting to know each other.”

I didn’t want to read them. They weren’t my business. Brooke grabbed the mouse and scrolled down. I stood up, and let her sit down. It felt like I was invading my mom’s privacy.

“Why would he have those?” I wondered out loud.

“All the other files are more emails.”

I opened the bottom drawer, looking under the pile of returned letters for any clues.

“This last email was written after they’d hooked up for a weekend.”

“Please spare me the details,” I said.

“Wait, did your dad leave right after the new year?”

“Yes. Why?”

“Was your mom with you the weekend after New Year’s?”

I thought back. “She went out of town that weekend with some friends. Why?”

“You may want to look at this one,” she said, moving so I could sit back down.

The letter to Matt was thanking him for the best weekend of her life. She went on to say that while she knew she was in love with him, she wasn’t yet ready to leave her family.

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