Ophelia by Tara Brown

Author:Tara Brown [Brown, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tara Brown
Published: 2019-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Sunday, July 28

Sleeping in my room with a barricade against the door for two nights, worked the second night. I finally slept, which was probably the first time in a while. Unburdening myself on Dr. Graves and my father made me feel better, freer. But there was still the unknown. Mother hadn’t been confronted. She hadn’t responded. Did she know? Was she plotting too? It was stressful.

I got up and put on a robe before I cleared the doorway, listening for her or anyone, but there was nothing. No movement or breath in the hallway that I could hear.

Mother had been in a weirdly good mood yesterday, even pleased to see me home which naturally made me wonder if we had somehow played into her hands. Was she aware of what we’d done, and was this what she had wanted all along?

My stomach growled and the need for food and coffee won out. Opening the door to my bedroom like some kind of escapee was proof in point of the level of disfunction I was living with. And only being away from it for a length of time revealed the mess I was.

The hallway was empty, so I snuck to the left this time, trying not to make the same choices every day. I rushed for the main staircase, hurrying down to the foyer and through the main arteries of the house to the dining room.

Laertes was there. Father clearly had been and gone, his dishes lingered.

I sat at the breakfast table, offering my brother a stressed half-smile as he greeted me, “Morning.”

“Morning,” I said, trying not to make noise.

“Sleep well?” he asked over the paper.

“I did. You?”

“No. I heard our parents fighting most of the night,” he muttered, lowering the newspaper and his voice. “Mother was accusing him of taking your side over hers. She got angry and said she was bringing Dr. Horkel to the house to have you assessed, calling the people at the retreats charlatans.”

“How did you hear them from your room?” I hadn’t heard a thing.

“I wasn’t in my room. Honestly Ophelia, I tell you she wants Dr. Horkel to come here, and that’s the first thing you ask?” He lifted an eyebrow, making the same inquisitive expression our father did.

“It doesn't matter that they fought. She'll win. I’m preparing for her to win, Laertes. I feel better that Father knows, but I have no faith in anyone saving me or helping me. She’s managed to convince everyone I’m insane for a long time. A crazed depressed girl. I’m not staying here for long.” I didn’t mention my bag was packed and stashed in the forest, something I’d done with Paige. A girl and a ghost wandering the estate in the middle of the night.

“Anyway, Miss Negative Nancy, Father told her that if Dr. Horkel even stepped so much as a toe inside New Denmark after today, he would find himself at the hands of the least gentle mercenaries Father knew. He told her

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