Mirror Image (Capitol Chronicles Book 4) by Shirley Hailstock

Author:Shirley Hailstock
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Shirley Hailstock

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Bells woke her. Aurora heard them from a distance. She wondered where they could be. There weren't any bells in her house. Then the deep, resonant sound of the gongs beat out the hour. She opened her eyes. This wasn't home. Then she remembered. The morning's activities came back like the aftermath of a nightmare.

Duncan slouched in the armchair across from her. He'd fallen asleep. She smiled slightly at him. He'd come for her as if she were in danger and brought her here. The cold pot of tea sat on the table between them. He was a nice man, she thought. A good man. She admitted she was more than a little in love with him. In time she knew she could fall all the way. But she no longer had the right.

Alzheimer's Disease could be hereditary. She'd seen her future this morning. One day she would be in the same secret place her mother inhabited. In a land where no one could reach her, where there was no today no tomorrow, no past no future. The people she loved and who loved her would not even be memories. That was the worst part, Aurora thought. Tears formed in her eyes again. To think that the good times would go, that they would just slip away one night like the closing of a door, of never being able to open it again, or to even remember that there was a door to open.

This was her fate. She let the tears spill, hot and scalding, down her face. They collected in her ears and she didn't move to clear them. She cried for the lost love she would never know, for the growing love she had to forego. She cried for the children and grandchildren that wouldn't be hers. She cried for the past, the memories she had which she'd lose, and for the future ones she'd make and forget.

She'd been close, she thought, so close. Duncan was the first man in years she'd wanted to know better. He made love to her, incredible love. He'd taken her to levels she didn't know existed and she wanted to go there again and again with this man. She wanted to savor her time with Duncan West, hold the memory of him like a warm winter blanket when he left to pursue his goals in California. Now she knew that no matter how many times he made love to her, in time she wouldn't remember it.

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