Wife Without a Past by Elizabeth Harbison

Author:Elizabeth Harbison [Harbison, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Nonfiction, Series
ISBN: 9780263161236
Google: hgChAAAACAAJ
Amazon: B0056H6VKK
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 1999-11-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Laura weakened. The last traces of her good humor disappeared. “My mother,” she repeated. Her heart turned into a boulder and dropped to the pit of her stomach. “Mother.” The word felt new to her. She had assumed she didn’t have parents. Why?

“I would have thought at least you would have let me know,” Adele said to Laura.

Laura looked at her blankly. Whereas she’d felt a stab of familiarity or at least interest when she first saw Drew, Adele sparked no feeling in her at all.

It should have been a tremendous joy to meet her own mother but this…well, this wasn’t what she would have expected. Mothers were gentle, sweet, loving, understanding people like Barbara Billingsley on that old show “Leave it to Beaver,” or Jane Wyatt on “Father Knows Best.” There were hundreds of shows on TV that had mothers on them. None of them were loud and demanding like this one.

Of course, she realized that TV wasn’t exactly the most reliable measuring stick, but it had to be based on some truth, didn’t it?

Laura stopped. Maybe her judgment of Adele wasn’t fair. After all, she’d only just met the woman. Still, it was a bit unnerving that her mother was more concerned about them keeping secrets from her than she was about seeing alive the daughter she’d believed dead for so long.

“…that this is exactly the sort of trauma I was trying to prevent for her,” Drew was saying.

“Mmm-hmm.” Adele drew herself up in her chair and turned to Laura. “Tell me, Laura dear, how did Samantha react to seeing you again?”

“I haven’t met her yet.” She hesitated, waiting for the reprimand she was certain was coming. Adele had probably never kept an opinion to herself, and she was clearly not a person who would understand, much less agree with, Laura’s terror of traumatizing her child.

“Not met her?” Adele turned an annoyed gaze to Drew. “What have you been doing? Hiding her in the broom closet? How on earth could Samantha not have seen her if she’s been here since yesterday?”

He looked exasperated. “Laura is staying at Starbuck House for now,” her hero defended. “It will be less traumatic for Sam if we take it slowly.”

“Now you sound just like that father of yours,” Adele scoffed. She lowered her chin and raised her tone. “I suppose once you’ve lived with a psychiatrist you can’t help but sound like one, but I am a student of the real world and, believe you me, the sooner Samantha has her mother, the better.”

“That could throw them both into shock.”

Ignoring Drew, she looked pointedly at Laura. “A good mother always knows what’s best for her child. That doesn’t go away with any amnesia.”

Laura found her voice. “Drew and I talked it over and decided that I see the house first, then meet Sam in it so as to avoid both of us going through the shock of it at the same time.”

Her mother snorted. “Since when does Andrew Bennett listen

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