No Wasted Tears by Carter Sylvia D

Author:Carter, Sylvia D. [Carter, Sylvia D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781624634307
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2013-03-25T23:00:00+00:00

May life be kind to you, Destiny, and may the sun smile on you. May you always find love and care, and that you give it in double measure. You will always be my Destiny.

I love you,

Mom

Destiny hastily refolded the letter into thirds and tucked it back into the envelope. She noticed her hand shaking as she hurriedly smoothed the envelope over the paper. Destiny had grown up believing that her mother was unwed and that she was an accident. She had been wrong about her mother and father. They had been very much in love, and they both loved her. Someone in deep emotional pain had written this letter. Someone who had been literally sick with love for her baby and her husband had written it.

Sara would talk willingly enough about her mother’s first dates or what life used to be like in Kingstree before the interstate highway arrived. Once in a while, Sara would reminisce about the early days of her life, and Destiny would get a brief, precious glimpse of her mother as a baby or young girl. But questions about Destiny’s father were met with awkward silence. The past, she learned, meant pain. And the last thing Destiny wanted was to cause her auntie any more heartbreak.

The only safe memories, the only ones Destiny could ask about and get a smile from, were the stories of Sara and Margret’s childhood in Kingstree. She’d told her of her parents’ courtship but never the mention of a marriage. Her mother’s story had made a powerful impact on Destiny, who grew up believing that love would eventually lead to a broken heart. She’d made her way unhappily through high school, where being smart disqualified her from popularity and her frizzy brown hair, acne-prone skin, and only reinforced her brainy image. Destiny was forced to believe that fairy tales she had read about rarely ever happened in real life.

It wasn’t until college that she met her best friend, Tina Brown. She was someone not as socially awkward but just as grade obsessed as she was. Tina was the youngest child of two. Her Uncle Willie had raised her. Destiny now knew that was her father. It was odd because he had always been there for her. Every major event in her life during and after college, he had been around. He saw her transformation from an awkward bookworm into a polished woman, her unruly hair then smoothed from a perm.

As Destiny thought about Willie, she realized that Sara and he were one of the few constants in her life. Friends who didn’t understand her nonstop work schedule had drifted away—all accept Tina. Her social life outside the office was nonexistent because Stanley had wanted it that way. But Willie had been around even then. Never did a month go by that she didn’t see him. He was always in town for a conference or a meeting, but he always stopped in to check on her. They had even had lunch on several occasions.

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