Liberty House by Temperance Johnson

Author:Temperance Johnson
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781648268502
Published: 2020-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

While Matt and Jerry went to relieve Owen at the office before supper, the family was talking, and Gloria was cooking when Tommy tried to come in and help.

“I’m fine, Tommy. I got it,” Gloria told her.

“I want to help.”

“Well, I’ll let you get the sense I can’t help,” Gloria snapped.

“What are you talking about?” Tommy asked, confused.

“You never thought once to tell me. Maverick, he knew something was up and didn’t tell us. You didn’t think of telling me all those years. After all, I told you about what I went through, you never thought to tell me. I thought I was your best friend.” Gloria cried. She put a glass bowl on the counter, and it slid off and shattered on the floor.

Cole leaned his head in to see what happened, then left. Neither girl noticed.

Tommy ignored the glass on the floor. “You are. And I’m sorry. You did help me in ways Maverick never could.”

“How? All I was there to open my heart to you, and you tell me nothing of your past in return.”

“By being there, by treating me like I was a person.” She slid down the wall to the floor as she felt her legs shaking. “With you, it was different. I don’t know why, maybe because of Diana, but she was my best friend in so many ways closer than even me and Izzy got. And in one night she was killed,” she said, distraught. “I wanted out of this life. I…had some thoughts of...ending my life.” She hid her face in her hands in shame.

Gloria gasped. She went to her sister and knelt beside her. “I didn’t know.”

“I could never do it. You know why?” Tommy looked at her.

Gloria shook her head.

“It was you. When we would sit on our bed and you would talk. I listened-even if I didn’t show it to your soft voice, it helped. And if I did it, I would never hear it again. Even if I wouldn’t admit it then, I started to love you and the others. I was afraid of that because of all I could see myself as kidnapped with maybe some of y’all. Then moved again from all I knew and loved, so I figured what the point in telling any of y'all. And lately that fear has still been there,” Tears ran down her face. “I love you, Glo." Tommy breathed out, uneasy but relieving.

Gloria took Tommy in her arms and cried with her for the first time ever. “I love you, Tommy,” Gloria whispered. “And I’ll always be here. Always.”

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