Gone But Not Forgotten by C. Michele Dorsey

Author:C. Michele Dorsey [Dorsey, C. Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2023-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FOUR

‘She’s no longer with us,’ hadn’t meant Terry no longer worked at Thompson House. It meant she was dead. The administration was using diplomatic doublespeak to convey a truth without involving Thompson House in a tragedy. Learning Terry’s death had been ruled a homicide convinced me that my mother had also been murdered. I searched the article to learn how Terry was murdered, but only found that police were withholding details pending investigation.

I hated to think Terry’s death was my fault. I’d felt responsible enough when I believed she had lost her job because I had asked for her help. I would never forgive myself if I had caused her murder. I thought about Joey and the tenderness Terry showed when she described him making their lunches each day. I wondered who would take care of Joey and hoped Terry had a supportive extended family.

I flipped through the paper to find an obituary for her, but saw none. I felt a terrible need to do something, anything that might atone for any part I may have played in Terry’s death. I could send flowers, just as my friends had sent me the moth orchid. But flowers didn’t sound like they would console Joey. I remember my mother baking macaroni and cheese, the one meal she had perfected, for families in Burlington when they had a death. I made a much better mac than Mom had. But I didn’t even know where Terry lived.

I felt scattered. There were just too many things on my plate right now. I was now certain my mother had been murdered, although I had no idea about why someone would want to kill her. I knew Terry’s death was connected. While I did believe in coincidences, neither of these two events could be one. I was scared.

I also knew my husband had lied to me about his adoptive parents being dead. I believed he may have had reason to want to consider them dead, but not sharing the truth with me seemed an irredeemable breach of trust.

While there may be a slight possibility I was on the verge of learning the real identity of my mother and me, I had no idea why she had nearly two million dirty dollars stashed in a safe deposit box in a credit union in Burlington, Vermont.

The emotions churning in me were confusing. I loved my mother, but wondered what she may have done in the past to require the dramatic flight she took with me when I was a child. I believed she wanted to protect me, but was angry she had gone to her grave never telling me the truth I deserved to know.

I loved the man I thought my husband had been when he rescued me from the life of a spinster, but now questioned whether that person ever existed.

All of those feelings I could share and dissect in Dr Evans’ consultation room. But the one emotion in the pit of my belly I did not know how to deal with was fear.

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