Pulled Beneath by Marni Mann

Author:Marni Mann [Mann, Marni]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781620152195
Amazon: 1620152193
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2014-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

I AWOKE THE NEXT MORNING with one thought in my head: I’d been in Maine just short of three weeks. With that thought came a blast of pain. The sun was far too strong for the ache behind my eyes so I rolled over to face the back of the couch. It was Saturday; Brady wouldn’t be here until Monday, which was good…it would take me at least that long to figure out what to say to him.

I needed a break from everyone.

Instead of going out in the backyard with Bella, letting her relax under the fall air while I gazed at Saint’s boat, I took her into town to get coffee. I was going to need some fuel. Andy had called and asked me to go through every drawer and closet in the house and decide if there was anything I wanted to keep—including the furnishings. I had today to complete it all; he had scheduled a crew to come in on Sunday to box all the paperwork and remove the personal items from the house to make the renovation work easier. According to the attorney, Shirley had already taken everything she wanted when she left the US. The rest was mine if I wanted it. But aside from going in my mom’s old room, I hadn’t searched the house at all. I had no desire to; I didn’t think the answers I was looking for were in here. I felt like they were buried with my mom and her parents or they were off continent with an aunt I didn’t even know.

With an extra-large to-go mug in my hand, I spent the morning looking through the closets in Shirley’s room and in the master bedroom. There was nothing in either of them that was worth saving. The clothes were as dated as the furniture and the bath products had long since expired. None of the papers in either of their desks taught me anything—at least not about my mom. I saved the nightstand next to the Coswells’ bed for last. People usually kept extra personal items in their nightstand… I had kept a vibrator and condoms in mine.

I tried to prepare myself for whatever Marilyn’s might hold.

I knelt on the floor in front of it, noticing her dainty glasses that rested on top, and carefully opened the top drawer. It was filled with paperback romances, a few pill bottles, and loose tissues. Inside the bottom drawer were two envelopes. When I saw the handwriting on the front of them, my entire body began to shake. My breathing sped up.

It was from Mom. Our return address was in the top left corner.

Why had I waited so long to search the Coswells’ bedroom?

Lifting the envelopes out of the drawer, I gently opened the first one and removed the piece of notebook paper. The muscles in my stomach clenched as I began to read.

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