Murder in Treasure Cove by Meredith Potts

Author:Meredith Potts [Potts, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

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With that, my mother left the video chat. I then rushed back inside my room and closed the door as quietly as possible behind me. I didn’t want either of my grandparents to spot me. Or suspect that I had been listening to that conversation.

I made my way back into bed and got under the covers. By that point, the hour was late. I should have been exhausted. Under other circumstances, I might have nodded off to sleep with relative ease. That evening was anything but ordinary.

I closed my eyes, but I wasn’t able to get any sleep. How could I after everything I just heard? What a terrifying conversation that was. All this time, I wanted my mother to talk to me like a grown up. I told her that I could handle anything. That she didn’t have to speak to me like I was a little kid.

Much to my surprise, adult conversations were much more difficult to stomach than I ever imagined. It was suddenly quite clear why my mother tried to be so vague with me when I asked her questions about her work. She was just trying to protect me.

Part of me wished that I had just stayed in bed a few minutes ago. That I had not opened up the door and spied on my grandmother’s video chat. It was unsettling to see my mother looking so distressed. She was normally so composed. So calm. It was rare to see her sweat.

So, for her to be grimacing like that was a complete shock. It wasn’t just her facial expressions that bothered me, though. The words that had come out of her mouth were troubling as well.

I didn’t know that my mother ever got scared. Apparently, she did.

Honestly, that video chat showed that there was an entirely different side to my mom. She was vulnerable. She had her doubts. She didn’t have all the answers. In fact, there was a lot that she didn’t know.

I liked the way things used to be. When I believed that my mother had everything figured out. When it felt like she was invincible. If only I could go back to believing that.

After what I’d just seen, that wasn’t possible. I knew the truth. My mother and father had very dangerous jobs. And there was no telling what would happen next.

Suddenly, I was as nervous as could be.

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