Morning After by Michelle Reid

Author:Michelle Reid
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'Not once during the eighteen years I lived with her did she ever let me know that interesting little fact,' she told him. 'I had to wait until she was dead to discover our true relationship—via letters sent from Todd's father to her, laying out ground rules for the lump sum he settled on us both which involved her holding her silence about his name. Why she decided to include herself in that silence I don't know.' And will never know now, she added bleakly to herself. 'But discovering that far from being the orphan I'd always believed myself to be I'd had not only a mother but a father as well sent me a little crazy for a time.'

'You were hurt,' he defended her gently.

'And the rest,' she said, and huffed out a sound of scorn. Hurt, angry, bitter, betrayed.

She hunched her body over her knees, a fresh handful of pebbles clenched in her fist.

'I stormed into Giles Hanson's office and began shrieking at him like a maniac,' she went on after a moment. 'I accused him of just about everything I could accuse him of, then set about telling him what I thought of him as a man.'

The word 'man' emerged with enough contempt to make any man wince. Cesar winced.

'I had just got to the part where I was telling him how I was going to reveal to the world how he and my mother had treated me when Todd came into the room.'

She turned to look at him then, her gaze skimming over his set, sober face. 'Your eyes are the same colour as Susie's,' she remarked—quite out of context. 'I should have made that connection a lot earlier than I did. And I'm surprised now that I didn't.'

He glanced at her frowningly, not really understanding what she was getting at. 'We have nothing else

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