Her Last Letter by Nancy C. Johnson

Author:Nancy C. Johnson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Penwyck Publishing L.L.C.
Published: 2006-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Feeling vulnerable, I crossed my arms as I walked into Janet’s office the following Wednesday morning. Somehow, needing to see my therapist again felt like a personal failure. But it was all so confusing now. I didn’t know whom to trust, what to believe, where to turn.

Janet stood in the corner of the room, closing a file drawer. She looked up at me and smiled. “Hi, Gwyn. Cold out there, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” I said, unfolding my arms. “And it’s snowing pretty hard.”

“Supposed to get five inches.”

“Yes, I heard that too.” I settled into my favorite chair facing the window and watched as snowflakes fell softly out in her courtyard.

She walked over and took a seat across from me.

“How are things with you, Gwyn?”

“Well, you know, just once I’d like to come in here and say, wonderful, never better. But, of course, I’d be lying.”

Janet laughed softly. “Well, maybe that day isn’t too far off. You do appear troubled, tense. Am I right?”

“If I were a coiled spring I’d be bouncing around the room.”

“That bad.”

“I suppose I should have made an appointment sooner than this. I haven’t been following your advice. I’ve been keeping things, a lot of things from you. But I really hoped to handle this on my own. Unfortunately, I can’t.”

“Oh.”

“I found a letter that my sister Kelly wrote. She must have written it shortly before she died. I’m certain she didn’t want me or Linda to find it, because it was taped to the inside of her dresser. The only reason I did find it was because it came loose and got caught as I was trying to open the drawer. She wrote that she’d been screwing her ‘sister’s boyfriend’ and was scared for her life. She also implied that this man may have killed a woman, a girlfriend possibly. That part wasn’t clear. She also said there was a box, that he may have found ‘the box.’ I have the letter in my purse if you’d like to see it.”

“Yes, I would.”

I handed it to her.

Janet read it, then looked up at me. “How long have you had this?”

“Since around Halloween. And there’s something else I’m very worried about, though I don’t know if one has anything to do with the other. I think Trevor may be having an affair, possibly with a woman I met this past weekend. I’m not certain about the woman. It could be someone else. And I could be wrong altogether. I hope I am. But I came home after a weekend away and smelled another woman’s perfume on my pillow. It definitely wasn’t mine.”

“This letter does seem authentic. If it is, then I definitely would be worried too. Who else have you told about this?”

“Linda, she’s the only one.”

“And what did she say?”

“Actually, she refused to believe it. She thought that Kelly made it up, that she wanted us to find it, in order to drive us crazy. Of course, Kelly did write a lot of fiction, short stories, poems, but nothing like this.

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