Torn Between- Seduced by the Billionaires by Emma Rose

Author:Emma Rose [Rose, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Andrew Sovich’s hulking shadow enveloped the three grave stones set out before him. With strong hands he broke apart the bouquet into three smaller bundles of flowers.

“I only need two,” Maralee corrected as she took one of the sets from his hand and placed it in the inset vase in front of the oldest stone. Dr. Sovich made no effort to replace the bundles, instead ensuring there were three separate entities.

“I need one,” he mumbled mysteriously.

“Katelyn was always the sweet one,” she mused as she sat beside the tombstone and brushed her hand lightly across it. “When we were little and all four of us were at home we would play cards or games on rainy days. Being the youngest, it was easy for me to be conned out of the good cards. Jennifer always wanted to win, and Dawn kept trying to make her own rules, but Katelyn played fair. When she could see I was getting a little blue or frustrated, she’d let me win.”

“I can see you four in my…um…inside vision…um…”

“Imagination?”

“Da. I can see you four in my imagination. Little blonde sprites playing and laughing with each other.”

“Only in your imagination would that be the case,” Maralee nodded and patted Katelyn’s stone again. “We were the Snow girls, all right. Blonde and bright, but never really blissful. Jennifer was practical, serious, and strong. Katelyn, sweet and surprising while Dawn was ridiculously talented and powerful. I guess I got whatever was left over.”

“You got the spirit. The will to survive.” The doctor beamed at her like a proud father.

The statement made Maralee pause for a moment. Looking at the graves of her sisters Maralee nodded its truth. “My oldest sister is still alive.”

“Yes, but,” he reasoned, wanting her to see her own strength above all others, “she quit being a Snow to do that. She didn’t live through your family horrors, she left them for you.”

“She had her reasons,” Maralee mumbled, looking up at the sky to keep her tears under the rim of her eyes. “When my father would start beating my mom, it was Jennifer who would try to stop him. Katelyn wanted to try to help Mom afterward, Dawn would flake out and climb out a window and I’d hide in the closet and pray for the goddess to help. But Jennifer, she’d stand right up to him, and get her own thrashing for the effort. I don’t think she quit being a Snow. I think it was beaten out of her.”

“Do you ever see or hear of her?”

“No. Not in years. I don’t even know where she is. She has her own life, whatever it is, and I pray it’s peaceful. She deserves it.”

“Would you like me to find her? I know people…”

“No, thank you.” Maralee smiled at the grand gesture. She knew he would turn heaven and earth if she asked him, and she loved him for it. “Best to let her go. Not these two, though. They stay here, watching from the heavens.

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