Girl in the Shadows by V.C. Andrews

Author:V.C. Andrews
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He nodded and went out to the winery.

Meanwhile. Echo, impatient now, went looking for her mother and discovered she was gone. A look of panic came over her when she found out they had left.

Her hands were flying about like small birds trying to draw diagrams in the air. 'Where were they? When did they leave? When were they coming back?"

"They have business here and had an

appointment," I told her.

Maybe I was passing on a lie as Trevor thought, but I didn't want her worrying. I saw she couldn't concentrate on our work. She was constantly thinking about her mother, looking alit the window for her and Skeeter's return, so I asked Mrs. Westington if it would be all right to take Echo for a ride. "We'll return to the mall," I told her. "I need some other things and Echo enjoyed it so."

She thought a moment and nodded. "It would be good to keep her mind off you know who," she said, reading my mind. "And I know you're responsible and trustworthy enough to look after her."

When I told Echo, she was bright and happy again. This would actually be the first trip she had ever taken without her grandmother and Trevor Washington. I unhooked my car from Uncle Palaver's motor home and brought it around to the front of the house.

"Where you headed?" Trevor asked. I told him and explained why.

"Can't blame the girl. I guess," he said. "After you lose someone you love or someone who loves you, you'd forgive them all their sins and imperfections if you could have them back. You'd even make a deal with the devil."

"That's who Echo would have to speak to about her mother," I told him, and he laughed.

"Have a good time," he said, and returned to his favorite work. I realized it was work that kept him in close contact with the best memories of his life. It was truly a labor of love, and despite all the complaining Mrs. Westington voiced about it, she was happy for him, maybe even envious. I wished I could find a way to reconnect with my good memories, too, reconnect without all the baggage of sadness that accompanied them.

I honked the horn and Mrs. Westington brought Echo out. She had helped her choose one of her new skirt and blouse outfits and she did look pretty. It was a partly sunny day with high brisk winds smearing the clouds over the blue sky so that they thinned out and spread like tattered white cloth toward the southwest.

Sunlight brought a brightness to her face the way it would open a flower.

Echo got into the car. She was very excited now, the short trip truly a major adventure in her eyes because it was just the two of us. She watched me drive and then told me Tyler had promised that soon he would teach her how to drive so she could be ready for her driving test when she was of age. She

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