Unfinished Melody by Cee DW

Author:Cee, DW
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, relationship, marriage, family, surrogacy
Publisher: DW Cee

Shit. This letter ripped me apart. Being so damn happy with my new bride, I never thought twice about Marni. I took this letter with me and knocked on Jackie’s door. We needed to have a heart-to-heart about her daughter, whether or not she wanted this conversation.

“Can we talk?” I whispered when Jackie opened the door.

“Sure. Come in. We can go into my sitting room and leave the door ajar.”

Walking through the bedroom, I checked in on my angel. Leaning over the bed, I placed a light kiss on my little girl’s lips, more to comfort me than her.

“What’s up?” I gave Jackie Mar’s letter and it took her no time to read it. Jackie wasn’t too pleased with my nosiness.

“Tell me Mar wasn’t as bad as she sounds in this letter. Why didn’t she ever tell me?”

“What difference would it have made? You chose her sister over her. You dropped my daughter after all those years and chose the girl who was always everyone’s favorite.”

“Jackie. That’s not how it happened.”

“What do you think happened? Why don’t you tell me your version?”

“Mar left for college and we went our separate ways. That’s not uncommon for high school sweethearts. When she broke up with me, I was heartbroken, too.”

Jackie looked doubtful. I didn’t want to think too carefully about how I truly felt at that time.

“Ben, let’s not rehash the past. That letter was written a very long time ago. Mar was at a different place in her life than she is now. I hope you won’t embarrass her by showing this to her. I’m sure she doesn’t even know she kept a letter this old and outdated.”

“Is that why Mar moved to New York after we married? It wasn’t because of Noah? And speaking of Noah, wasn’t she with him at this time?”

“Mar and Noah had some difficulties early on in their relationship; he cheated on her. When my daughter moved to New York, she went for a job. She was determined to fix her broken self.”

“Shit.” My heart broke for Mar. All those years of marital bliss, all those years of non-communication, all those years I never reached out to my sister-in-law, haunted me. “Why didn’t she call us? We were her family.” I agonized over hurting Marni.

“Get some sleep, Ben. The Mar who wrote that letter is not the same Mar who’s helping you raise Alice.”

“OK,” I answered with reluctance. I’d try to go to bed with the knowledge that I hurt Marni. I’d try to forget that Marni loved me while I was married to her sister. I’d do my best not to wonder when this love eventually faded. I’d try my damnedest not to think about whom she loved tonight.

Most of all, I’d do my best not to think about which Mar I preferred—the woman who wrote that heartbroken letter all those years ago, or the woman who was physically with me but emotionally with another man.

I’d do my best to forget everything and go back to the simplicity of loving my daughter.

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