Midnight Garden (The Extra Ordinary World Novella Series Book 1) by Jeannie Wycherley

Author:Jeannie Wycherley [Wycherley, Jeannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bark at the Moon Books
Published: 2019-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

I sat on my bed staring out at Oakwood Villa. Forty-four years old and hiding out in my bedroom as I had as a child.

From the floor below came the sounds of Cathy moving around attending to my mother. Helping her wash, changing her sheets, cleaning the bedroom and the bathroom and preparing a light supper. I could hear the sound of the radio, all the way down on the lower ground floor. Cathy obviously liked music while she worked.

In all the years—since the passing of Ian at any rate—I had never heard this house sound so full of life. It seemed strangely alien.

Home had been bad enough after my father’s death, but Ian had been so young, and he hadn’t understood why our Daddy hadn’t come home one day. He continued to live his life as any noisy toddler would—playing, laughing, singing, crying, screaming—he had filled the void left by my father. But then with Ian’s death the chasm of silence had widened. Forever after my little brother’s untimely demise, my mother and I had crept around the shell of the life we had created here, always on tenterhooks with each other. The stultifying atmosphere of 27 Park Close crushed any emotional growth I might have otherwise gone on to enjoy.

Perhaps Ian was well out of it.

What sort of man would he have grown up to be?

Would he have been happy? Happier than me? Well adjusted? Loving? Forgiving?

All the things I’d failed to be?

I’d been accused over and over again in my life of being arrogant, detached, emotionless, or just plain cold.

I curled up on my bed, one hand pressed against my forehead, the other against my chest. It would be wrong to say I couldn’t feel pain. Because what the fuck was this I was feeling right now if it wasn’t pain?

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