The Woman Outside My Door by Rachel Ryan

Author:Rachel Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Between his trip to the zoo, the impromptu visit to Vera’s, and the Kit Kat, Cody was overstimulated. He was practically bouncing up and down when Georgina brought him home. When his repeated requests of “Can I play a game on your phone, Mom? Please?” became too much to bear, Georgina gave him her phone—which she had taken out of her pocket with the express purpose of doing some Googling and sleuthing—just to shut him up.

With Cody quieted and playing on her phone in his bedroom, Georgina opted to use Bren’s MacBook. Her laptop was downstairs and going to get it would mean interacting with Bren. But the MacBook was on their bed and she knew the password.

She settled cross-legged on the mattress, opened Google, and typed the words ways children deal with grief. There were 59,400,000 results. Maybe there’d be something on here about kids creating imaginary friends to replace lost loved ones.

In the aftermath of the Bren/Emma saga, Georgina was strangely calm. The anger towards Bren had, oddly, cleared her head. Sitting here now, she felt able to focus on what mattered most: Cody.

She was going to get to the bottom of this. She was going to concentrate.

Though something was niggling at her, a troubling feeling that there was some important detail she had missed… something someone had said? But no, the half memory was fading. She couldn’t catch it… It was gone.

Turning her attention back to the computer, she added the words imaginary friend to her search.

It is completely healthy for children to have imaginary friends…

Imaginary friends can help children deal with stress, anxiety, or bullying…

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