Secrets of Foxworth by V.C. Andrews

Author:V.C. Andrews
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pocket Books

It was clear now that we’d be locked up here until our grandfather died. Cathy was more despondent than ever. I had my work cut out for me: how to keep her spirits and the twins’ spirits up, how to keep them all occupied. Cathy wasn’t stupid. She would spot insincerity very quickly. But I had another ability that came in very handy now. I could will myself to believe in something. I wasn’t like other people who fool themselves or lie to themselves. I knew how to dress up something I doubted so that I looked convinced about it, but I had something people who lie to themselves don’t have. I knew what I was doing. I knew the truth, and I could retreat to it whenever I wanted to or had to. Maybe that sounds arrogant, but to me, it’s just a statement of fact.

“He could live forever,” Cathy moaned almost immediately. “We’re doomed, Christopher. No one else knows we’re up here. All of my friends are probably calling each other for news, and maybe some of them are asking their parents to call the police! I hope they do. I hope there’s a nationwide search for us, and our pictures are put on post office walls. People locked up like this go mad and even shrink. I read it in a magazine.”

“Stop the dramatics,” I told her in our father’s most assertive voice. Her eyes widened. “It’s not going to be anywhere near that bad. Our grandfather is suffering from heart disease. That means his arteries are blocked with something called plaque. If—not if, I should say when—a piece of that breaks free, he’ll have a heart attack and die on the spot. We’re so far away from the city that by the time the ambulance arrives, he’ll be long gone.”

“He has a nurse around the clock. He’s rich. Maybe he has an ambulance parked out front all the time.”

“Nurses aren’t doctors, and they can’t possibly have all the life-saving machinery hospitals have, Cathy, no matter how rich he is. The man is in critical condition. It’s classic intensive care. He should be in a hospital. He obviously wants to die at home. He knows himself that he hasn’t got long to go.”

She looked at me askance.

“Think about it,” I added even more strongly. “If Grandmother Olivia didn’t believe it herself, she wouldn’t have permitted us to come here in the first place. You see the way she treats Momma. She doesn’t have much faith in Momma’s ability to win back her father’s love. His death is the only thing that makes sense. It’s impending.”

She squinted.

“Impending, imminent, can happen any time.”

“In the meanwhile?”

“In the meanwhile . . .” I looked around. “Let’s do some fun things. Why don’t we stage a play? You love dramatics. You write it, and I’ll act in it, and the twins will be our audience. We certainly have enough material for costumes.” I held my breath. Would she buy into it?

“You always made fun of my interest in acting.

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