Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule

Author:Ann Rule [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-12-09T08:05:18+00:00

JENN WAS TORN by aching indecision. Although she knew intellectually that there was no Christopher and never had been, she was unable to let go emotionally of the mind-picture she still had of him. He wasn’t real, but he still existed for her. Chris—Anita—Hearn had fashioned her emails so that Jenn would believe they were on the same wavelength as far as their interests and concerns. Anita sounded as if she was as devoted to “her sister’s children” as Jenn was to Dalton and Dillon. She had written about taking care of her ill mother, and she was seeking to live a life with someone who was kind and gentle. Although Anita had carried out what many people would consider a cruel hoax, Jenn found it in her heart to forgive her. She told her mother and sister only that she hoped to meet “the person” she had met online in person. She would deal with the dicier truth about who Anita really was later. Part of Jenn Corbin still loved someone who was, in truth, neither Chris nor Anita but rather a figment of a desperate imagination. As she was going through the chaos of living with an enraged Bart, Jenn started answering the messages that Anita still sent her. She still had a friend. She even considered Anita’s suggestion that they might share a home together as they struggled to raise their children. Cautiously, they started exchanging emails again, sometimes as often as before. The New Year would come in a few weeks, and Jenn didn’t know what she was going to do or where she would be living. And so she continued to stockpile household items in her mother’s warehouse and to write to Anita in Missouri when Bart wasn’t around. And Bart continued his fanatical exploration into every corner of Jenn’s private world. He would not allow another woman to leave him. It did not matter that he had emotionally abandoned her years earlier. He was a man on fire. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO DECEMBER 2004 JENN HAD ONCE MUSED to her sister that there might be things about Bart she didn’t know. And, of course, there were many. Jenn might have known that Bart once dated another dental student, but she certainly didn’t know that woman had “committed suicide,” and she had never heard her name. So she could not have imagined his shock when he received the report that the hard drive he took in to be examined had emails from someone named Hearn. He had also gleaned a phone number for that person in Missouri, but his calls to that number were never answered. He had relegated Dolly to the past—but now her family name was surfacing in his life again.

FIVE DAYS AFTER THANKSGIVING, on the Wednesday morning of December 1, just before 6 A.M., the war of the Corbins escalated once more. Jenn was in their recreation room running her usual mile on her treadmill, and she assumed Bart was upstairs taking his shower.

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