Rock Rhapsody by Rachel Cross

Author:Rachel Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2013-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Maddy stretched on her lounge chair on the sunny patio. It was a cloudless day, warm in the sun, cool in the shade — typical LA winter weather. She hugged herself, trying to remember when she’d been so happy. Despite her reservations about getting involved in a relationship with Asher, everything fit together. Ella was thriving.

The questions about Dee continued of course, and she still grieved, but the nightmares were few and far between. It was achingly sad and reassuring that Ella was moving past the desperate grief of losing her mother. Asher still couldn’t bring himself to go through Dee’s things, but he had asked Maddy to do it. She’d planned to go through the boxes today and made a mental note to ask the therapist if she could share some of the items with Ella.

Now that she knew Asher better, she understood the magnitude of his loss. Dee was one of only a handful of people in his life he was close to, and their sibling bond had been forged through their parents’ respective marriages and divorces, through nannies and prep schools and rebellions against their father. In many ways, taking care of his sister in his youth had paved the way for taking care of her child.

Maddy made her way up to one of the many guest rooms. Each had a seasonal theme and the boxes were stored in the “fall” guest room, her personal favorite. The walls were a beautiful sage green, the black-and-white prints on the wall were exquisite, the linens in shades of chocolate brown with orange accents. She pulled the top off the first box — a Bankers Box — stuffed full of papers. There were mostly bills, neatly organized by month, going back a few years. No mementos, nothing personal. She put the top back and put it aside. The second box was more of a trunk. It contained beautiful scarves; a faux fur wrap; a barely used, giant designer handbag; and a diaper bag.

Maddy pulled this last item out and stared at it. She opened it and dug her fingers into its cavernous interior. A cold metal object with a plastic tip met her fingertips and she fished it out. A baby spoon.

There was something in one of the pockets too substantial to be a diaper. Frowning, she pulled it out of the pocket. It was a little red book, thin and slightly larger than a paperback novel, with no writing on the outside. Each page was filled with blue inked words. Maddy sat back on her heels. A journal? She held it shut between her palms. Huh. She flipped through the pages again peering at the tiny script. She opened it to the first page. No name, no information about the owner, just the brand printed on the bottom left inside cover.

Maybe Asher should read it. But what if there was personal information in there that Dee didn’t want her family to know? Shouldn’t Maddy at least ask someone? She read the first page.

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