Love in Another Dimension by Anette Darbyshire

Author:Anette Darbyshire [Darbyshire, Anette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

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Jemma couldn’t take her eyes off Tom’s mother. She had been expecting a proud, immaculate woman with not a hair out of place, manicured hands and expensive designer clothes. The woman sitting here was nothing like that at all. Her long, un-brushed gray hair hung down in thin straggly wisps and her drawn, hollow face showed deep lines, aging her more than Jemma believed she was. What appeared to be dried tears stained her pale cheeks. A lump formed in Jemma’s throat as she gazed at the old woman whose head was bowed as though she might be asleep. In her frail, thin hands rested a tarnished silver picture frame. Jemma gasped as she leaned over to take a closer glance.

“What?” asked Susie, who had been snooping around the room.

“Susie, look. The picture she’s holding is of her and Tom.” It looked like it had been taken when Tom was in his mid-twenties, and they had been at the beach in Norfolk. She recognized the tall sand dunes in the background. Tom was laughing, his eyes alive and sparkling, with his arm draped round his mother’s shoulders. But the thing that moved Jemma most was the unconditional love on his mother’s face as she smiled up at her youngest son.

“Come on, Susie,” said Jemma. “I think we’ve seen all we need to see here.” She looked again at Tom’s mother. She had probably fallen asleep in her armchair every night while crying tears of regret over her dead son, lost in her tragic lament. Tom was so wrong about her. She may have been angry and unforgiving once, but that was a long time ago.

“Susie, do you think there’s a way we can convince her to move Tom’s ashes so he can lie next to his dad?”

“Dunno. How? We can’t talk to her.”

“I know. But there must be a way. Can you imagine what it would mean to Tom if his mother finally granted him his dying wish?”

“Yeah, but it wouldn’t change anything. He’d still be here because of me.”

“Yes, but it means that when he goes, he can leave with peace of mind, knowing that his mum did love him and that she did the right thing in the end.”

Susie shrugged. “Yeah, I suppose, but I still don’t see how you’re going to manage to convince her.”

Jemma drew her eyebrows together as her mind worked overtime. She wasn’t going to let this drop. “Let’s go.”

When they got back to the house, Susie disappeared next door to catch the latest episode of Tracy Beaker, leaving Jemma alone. She couldn’t get the image of the old woman out of her head. The happy, smiling woman in the picture bore no resemblance to the sad, rather pathetic old woman she had seen today. There had to be a way to get through to her and she knew just the person to help her. Claire had been around for a very long time. She must have seen and learned many things about this dimension.

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