Readies (The Cardigan Estate Book 30) by Emmy Ellis

Author:Emmy Ellis [Ellis, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Part of life was to endure grief and weather storms, but Anaisha was sick of the stagnancy, how only she seemed to be the one moving forward in all areas. Dayton wouldn’t want her moping around, so she refused to be unhappy all the time, preferring to hide any sorrowful moments when they snuck up on her unannounced. She was going mad living at home, too. To be fair, Mum was slowly smiling more, laughing sometimes, but Dad had remained stuck in place, his scowl still there. Janine and Grace popped in regularly—the case had obviously got to them back then if they kept coming here to check on them, and besides, friendships had formed, more so after Anaisha had joined the police.

Janine was instrumental in getting Mum to see a life where she could still grieve but be upbeat every now and then, too. She’d suggested a support group, which Mum actually attended, surprising Anaisha. She came back happier, as if whatever was spoken about there had lifted a weight off her shoulders. There was a future after the death of a loved one, you just had to find it, find that comfortable nook where you still mourned but it wasn’t such a heavy cloak anymore.

If only Dad could see that.

Or was Anaisha being a cow? Not everyone could file their grief away into a convenient box. Like Mum had said on the worst night of their lives when Quint and Raquel had come round, “We all cope in different ways.”

Anaisha should cut her father some slack, especially as it was his son who had died, not his brother. It must be horrendous to lose a child. Still, she was being suffocated by what felt like a dense atmosphere, the air at home thick with tension and sadness. For her to get through her own mourning process, she needed some light amidst the dark.

It was likely time for her to move out despite the guilt she’d feel by doing it. She hated the thought of Mum and Dad feeling like they’d lost her, too, when she wasn’t under their roof, but remaining there would be damaging to her mental health, especially as they thought her visits to Shaq meant she breathed the same oxygen as the enemy, therefore, she was a traitor. Why didn’t they understand what she was doing by going there?

Thankfully, as well as having Grace to talk to, she’d met someone, a copper who used to be at the same station as her. Ben had left a couple of years ago. She’d noticed him when he’d worked there—hard not to when he was so charismatic and magnetic—but he was older than her and married at the time. Now he was divorced, and she’d bumped into him outside the station a year ago while he’d been talking to Edgar Nelly, one of his old copper mates. Ben had asked her if she wanted to go for a drink. He’d said it like he’d meant it as

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