Your Every Move: the creepy suspense thriller by Vanessa Garbin

Author:Vanessa Garbin [Garbin, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Folks - bestselling psychological thriller publishers
Published: 2022-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

16

The next day, after dropping the kids off at school and college, I decide to visit Mum at the cemetery.

After Dad passed away, I used to visit his grave once a week with Mum, but then Mum started to get lifts to the cemetery with Janey, who had her own husband to visit there and did so regularly, so I haven’t been back in a while.

‘Hi, Mum,’ I say, sunflowers in hand and water dripping down my wrist. There’s no photo of Mum on the headstone yet. I’ll have to arrange it soon. Just Dad staring back at me.

There are some flower arrangements left over from the funeral, still piled over the mound of soil covering Mum’s grave. Curiously enough, Mum’s side of the headstone is bare, whereas Dad’s is swamped with bunches of red roses, in various stages of decay. There’s a new bunch, though, standing tall in the in-built ceramic vase, beneath my dad’s photograph.

They smell sweet when I sniff them, so they must have been brought here in only the last twenty-four hours.

There’s a heart shaped balloon tucked into the bouquet, with ‘Love you, boo xx’ printed on the red balloon in silver lettering.

How odd. Had somebody left them here by mistake?

I would have assumed that they’d been left here for Mum seeing as she only passed away just over a couple of weeks ago, but the balloon just doesn’t make sense.

Because, if the flowers are for my mother, then who on earth is calling my mother ‘boo’? As far as I know she didn’t have a romantic partner the entire time she was widowed. She always said that Dad was her one true love and that she’d never look at another man.

But now, with the ‘boo’ roses, and what happened with the will, I’m starting to wonder if my mother had been keeping more than one secret from me.

Had someone wooed her into leaving him everything in her will?

Is this what happened, Mum?

My heart begins to race.

It makes sense.

It makes perfect sense.

But then there are other roses, which look old and dehydrated. As though they’ve been here for far longer than Mum’s been gone. And they are the same roses. All on Dad’s side.

Very strange.

Rain starts to fall, just a light sprinkle.

I crouch down and rest a palm against the freshly turned earth.

‘Love you, Mum,’ I whisper. ‘I miss you so much. Hope you and Dad are at peace.’

I stare at Dad’s photo. My knowledge of what went on and the details of his affair are so limited that I’m not sure how to feel about him anymore. He’s my dad, and I have a lifetime of wonderful memories of him, and my memories of his love for Mum are so wonderful.

But now, everything is marred by what Mum told me. She seemed to think there was a reason behind his infidelity. That there was something which excused it. But I’m not sure that I could ever forgive him for what he did.

‘I wish I’d given you the chance to tell me, Mum.

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