The Amnesia Project by Barbara Winkes

Author:Barbara Winkes [Winkes, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance Suspense, Sci-fi
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2018-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

I had strange and confusing dreams that night—although, given my current situation, that was rather ironic. My reality was strange and confusing, not much different from what my subconscious could conjure. I dreamed that Tom was in bed with me, here in the hotel room.

“No,” I said, with an anger in my voice that surprised both of us. “The kids are right there, for Christ’s sake.”

“The therapist said we should try,” he insisted. His pleading tone and gaze unnerved me. I wanted to get away, from him, this room, but there were the kids, always there, needing me, holding me back. I didn’t have anywhere to go, because my parents had kicked me out. No, that was a long time ago. Dani had said I could do whatever I wanted to…and all of a sudden it was her, touching me, whispering to me in a way I couldn’t resist. I didn’t want to resist, to hell with all the warnings from our minister and therapist. I was nearly crying with joy. This was where I belonged, with her, in the warmth of her embrace. This was what I’d always wanted, from the moment I had first imagined it. I love you. I could taste those words on my lips. I could taste her. If I was going to hell for it, I didn’t care.

A sound in the hallway, another guest returning to their room, jolted me out of my troubled fantasies. In the other bed, Colin and Mia were still fast asleep. Remembering the images from my dream, I felt breathless. Was this really unnatural, going against what humans were designed for? Many, if not most, people in the community believed so. I had believed so, and maybe, to some extent, I still did.

What was true?

Was there something wrong with me?

Had my parents hated me because of this—or had I fallen for lies and missed the chance of saying goodbye to them? I wished Alice wouldn’t have to go back so soon. I wished I could be back in New York City, seventeen, with no fear of the future, but that was forever ago. If it was ever real. I shivered, troubled by my reality and my dreams alike.

I was someone else now: Peggy Bond, who couldn’t fulfill her wifely duties to save her life. I needed a psychiatrist more than I was willing to admit.

* * * *

I met Dani in the breakfast room. She sat with us, and I had a hard time looking her in the eye. She didn’t seem to notice—if anything, she was probably as exhausted as I was.

I let that sink in—she had never given up looking for me. In fact, she had changed careers so she could continue the search. I remembered her telling Alice that her parents had arranged an internship for her, and that she’d go to business school after.

Mia was dragging her feet, more interested in the drawing she wanted to finish than her breakfast, and Colin was drowning his pancakes in syrup.

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