Her Name Was Annie by Beth Rinyu

Author:Beth Rinyu [Rinyu, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beth Rinyu
Published: 2021-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I WAS SPEECHLESS, reaching over the table and grabbing her hand as the tears rolled down her face. “His brother raped you?”

She nodded. “Then he wrote to Tommy and told him I was the one who had come on to him.”

“Did you tell him what really happened?”

“I poured my heart and soul out in a letter to him, telling him everything. He wrote back to me and said to never write him again. He called me a liar and a tramp.” She dabbed her eyes with a napkin, reliving the moment as if it were yesterday.

“Did he know you were pregnant?”

“Yes, but he never even acknowledged it in his letter back. He was just so enraged in thinking I cheated on him with his brother. He refused to believe he raped me. He allowed Dominick to have this pull over him. I knew he’d never take my side over his.”

My heart ached for her. She was just a kid at the time, and I couldn’t imagine how sad and alone she was. “Did you tell your parents what had happened?”

She nodded and another surge of tears streamed down her face. I offered her my napkin and gave her time to pull herself together. “I don’t know what hurt more, Tommy not believing in me or my mother and father.” She stared up at the ceiling and blinked hard before finally locking eyes with me once again. “They told me I was making the rape up as an excuse for disgracing the family by getting pregnant.”

“But you were pregnant before he…” I couldn’t even say that ugly word.

“Yes.” She reassured me. “Tommy was the father. You were conceived in love or at least what I thought was love at the time.” It all started to come together. The man in the ocean—Thomas Cavlan was Tommy, my father. If there was any positive in this entire heartbreaking story, it was at least my father wasn’t a rapist. Instead he was an irresponsible asshole who had no faith or commitment to the girl he was supposedly so in love with. He was no better than his rapist brother, in my opinion.

“My parents were so angry. They sent me to live with my aunt in Massachusetts, far away from California, where no one knew me. Once I started showing, I wasn’t allowed to leave the house because my aunt didn’t want people talking. It was a whole different world back then.” She sighed. “If it had happened fifteen or even ten years later, then maybe I could’ve…” She let out a deep sob and pulled it together quickly. “Maybe I could’ve kept you,” she finished.

“Please don’t feel guilty about what you had to do. You were just a child yourself, and I swear to you, I had the best life ever.” Her eyes brightened with that affirmation.

“I talked to you every day while you were in my belly. I just knew you were a girl. There was never a doubt in my mind. I even named you…Annie.

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