The Accidental Ghost by Dakota Cassidy

Author:Dakota Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Chapter

Twelve

Ralph felt those words thrum though her veins, piercing the deepest part of her heart. “Did she know, Drucinda? Did she know how you felt?”

Drucinda’s snow-white head moved with a slow nod. “We were a couple for more than thirty years. We were a couple when society said we shouldn’t be.” She lifted a slender finger. “Mind you, we were always careful, of course, because the world could be such a horrible place. We kept separate residences until the day I died, but the dream was always to live together, make a home together…” Her voice hitched, her eyes filling with tears. “We just never did.”

How absolutely tragic. Ralph felt her heart constrict in sympathy. It was crystal clear, Drucinda loved this woman deeply. How cruel to have been denied the right to love one another due to fear, to not spend the rest of your years wrapped in the embrace of happiness.

It made her angry, sad. It made her want to rage against the ignorance, the nerve of someone to decide who you could love.

Ralph swallowed hard, her voice hitching, too. “I’m so sorry. The world can be a horrible place sometimes, can’t it? Filled with people who have no business sticking their noses into your life. I’m sorry acceptance is still so dreadfully small, and I know my words are just that—words. But I mean them.”

Her sigh was low, filled with sorrow. “We could have bucked the system, thrown caution to the wind and lived together anyway, but Kat was so afraid it would harm my agency, my legacy. Back in the day, I don’t know that it wouldn’t have. Even after all the awareness surfaced and began to pick up speed, she refused. Even after I told her I didn’t give a right damn. I only wanted to spend every night in her arms. But then I found out I had cancer, and it was over before I could give the agency and all its trappings the finger.”

Ralph gripped Drucinda’s hand in hers while they looked down at Kat. “I hate that for you, for her…for anyone who’s denied the right to enjoy their life, free of ridicule and persecution.”

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all simply be ourselves? Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for us, and we wasted so much time hiding. I hate that we wasted so much time.” She looked down at Kat, letting her hand rest on her cheek, stroking it lovingly. “I wasn’t alone when I left this plane. She was right by my side until the bitter end. But she has no one. No family, no truly close friends. I guess there was no time for that because of our careers. We didn’t make time for that. But I don’t want her be alone, Ralph. I want to be here for her, too.”

“Her time is very close,” Ralph murmured. “I feel it.”

The beep of the heart monitor, slowing rapidly, sounded in her ears. But the voice that spoke to her

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