Pieces of You by Campisi Mary

Author:Campisi, Mary [Campisi, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Mary Campisi
Published: 2011-06-22T07:00:00+00:00

It was odd how circumstance could transport a person from one situation, a lifestyle even, into another, completely foreign, heretofore, unthinkable arena. The role of mother was stiff and opaque, yet there were glimpses of recall, emotions pulsing to the surface like tiny electrodes on the brain, and at these times, Evie sensed how she once felt, how she was beginning to feel again.

Annie’s desperation to have a mother in her life forced her to accept Evie as a standard package, no add-ons, and certainly no real questions. Perhaps she possessed that rare unconditional love most often found in animals and small children. Or maybe fear prevented her from seeking answers to questions she didn’t know because the discovery would prove too great to gloss over and ignore. Evie fingered the heart necklace Annie had given back to her that first night. Here. I know how much this always meant to you. Dad would want you to wear it again. What choice did she have but to take it and wear it like a scarlet A around her neck? Forgive me, Rupe. Forgive me for the pain I caused you.

Memories surfaced, pecking at her like tiny fish trapped under a frozen pond. Rupe trudging up the back steps after a long day’s work, sweat-stained and dusty, but smiling the second he saw her. The smoothness of the worn Formica under Evie’s palms as she spread flour to roll him an apple pie. The small, half-snore, the largeness of his body next to hers. It was all there, freeze dried and packed away, but there was a tiny crack in the seal, and the memories had begun to leak out, slowly right now, but soon, the crack would turn into a fissure, and more memories would slip out until they exploded through a gaping hole, exposing everything. She had to leave. Soon.

“Mom? This is it.”

They were standing outside the art gallery, a posh storefront located ten minutes from the city in an upscale shopping plaza. The paintings in the window were all oils, all exquisite. “Let’s go see what we can find.” At least she could provide her daughter with this one small piece of truth. But once inside, she soon learned the gallery owner was not going to make it easy. Ian Debenidos swooped down on them with his 6’5” frame the second they walked through the door, following both women from painting to painting, hawk-like black eyes peering at them through black framed glasses. This would never do. The key was distraction. “Annie says you just sold a piece for her that garnered quite an impressive price.”

The man’s expression remained guarded. “It’s an impressive piece.”

“May I see it? Annie’s been trying to describe it to me, but words never do paintings justice, do they?” He was hiding something, she could feel it.

“Where is it, Ian?” Annie had circled through the gallery, making her way toward a room in the back. “You haven’t shipped it already, have you?” Before he could answer, she squealed with pleasure.

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