The Perfect Life (The Perfect Stranger) by Charlotte Byrd

Author:Charlotte Byrd [Byrd, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632251527
Publisher: Byrd Books
Published: 2021-02-22T18:30:00+00:00

13

Isabelle

It's been a week since I met up with my mom at her work and it has been a week since we have talked. I tried to reach out to her, but she hasn't returned any of my calls.

I know that she's avoiding me and I know that I'm avoiding her addiction and her anger.

That's why I'm not going to her house.

I see Libby almost every other day when I have my meetings with Kylie. Her language skills are improving by leaps and bounds, but she still has a long way to go. She's now able to press her lips together and to blow bubbles, something that she couldn’t do two months ago at all. We are now working on making the “p” and “b” sounds, but we’re not getting anywhere fast.

After our session one evening, Libby asks me to stay for dinner as Darren is working late.

She asks me if I'm dating anyone and when I tell her no, she asks me about Tyler.

“I know that you miss him, but you really should consider moving on.”

“No, it's nothing to do with that,” I lie. “It's just that I'm really busy and I haven't had the time.”

She nods understandingly but is clearly not convinced. She asks me more about Tyler and about what kind of man he is.

When I tell her about some of the silly and fun things that we did together and how much he made me laugh, I'm tempted to tell her about Oliver.

I have looked at that silhouette of him in the magazine article and the side picture that I found online a million times, but I am no more convinced one way or another that it is actually him.

Of course, I want it to be him. Wealthy, established, and living the high life on the other coast?

That's the kind of life that I want to imagine that he has. Living among people, walking in public, not hiding from anyone.

How could that actually be him?

How could no one know?

Every time I see Libby, I want to tell her the truth about Tyler. I want to tell her about my suspicions, but something holds me back.

She already knows too much and though I know that I can trust her, I wonder if there is a limit to that trust. Today is no different.

I bite my tongue and try to keep quiet. I change the conversation from Tyler to something else, but she notices and challenges me on it.

“I want you to be able to get over him,” Libby says. “I know that you love him, but you don't know where he is now. In all likelihood, you will never see him again.”

“Yeah, I know that you're right,” I say, nodding, but secretly think to myself about the possibility of him being Oliver. “I just don't know what to do. I can’t stop thinking about him.”

“What if I set you up on a date?”

“No. I'm not in a good frame of mind to date.”

“I know that you think that, but it has been over a year.

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