Reyes's Raina by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773361215
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Raina didn’t know where the afternoon went. She half dozed, but she kept jerking awake, checking on her mother often.

Finally at about four o’clock, her mother surfaced and smiled up at her. Raina jumped to her feet and leaned over her. “Hey, how are you feeling?”

“A little worse for wear,” her mother whispered. “But I’m alive.”

“The question is, is that a good thing or not?” Raina asked.

Her mother frowned, not understanding the question.

“Mom, did you try to commit suicide?”

Her mom stared at her. Then, all of a sudden, remembering about Reana, tears filled her mom’s eyes. Melissa cried, first gently, then deep racking sobs came, turning her body into a frail old woman completely broken down by grief. “Reana,” she whispered when she could. “Dear God. Please tell me it’s not true.”

Raina gripped her mother’s hands and whispered, “I’m so sorry. But it is true.”

Her mother curled up into a ball and motioned for Raina to leave. “Just go away,” she whispered. “I can’t deal with this. Please go away.” She pulled the covers up over her face, hiding most of it.

Raina sat back down for a moment, not sure what to do other than notify a nurse. She exited the room to the main emergency area and told the first medical person she saw that her mother was awake.

The nurse went to check on her, but her mother had fallen back into a heavy sleep again.

Raina explained what Melissa had said, trying to stop the hurt from being too obvious.

The nurse gave her a gentle smile. “She’s caught up in her own grief right now. She’s not trying to hurt you. But she is not ready to live with her new reality.”

Raina understood. It was pretty rough for her too. But her needs weren’t important apparently. She shoved her hands in her pockets and said, “I don’t know what to do now.”

“Go home,” the nurse said firmly. “You’ve spoken to her. You know we’ll care for her and help her pull through. Just give her time and space.”

Taking the nurse at her word, and feeling bruised inside and out, Raina went outside the front of the hospital and stood, staring up at the cloudy skies. It was hard to imagine this hurt ever going away. But she’d always understood there’d been something special between her mother and her sister. Raina knew in her heart of hearts that her mother wished it had been Raina who was dead, not Reana.

As soon as that thought came, Raina tried to stop herself from heading down that dark hole. It had been a great source of sadness and depression during her teenage years, and she’d finally gotten over it, realizing that was just the way of it. There was nothing she could do but accept it.

As she wondered what she was supposed to do now, a vehicle drove up. Reyes honked the horn at her, and she opened the passenger side door. “How did you know I was ready to leave?”

“I didn’t,” he said, “but I was coming to drag you away anyway.

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