The Last Reading by Gillian Larkin

Author:Gillian Larkin [Larkin, Gillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cThriller
Amazon: B00MPOAG6W
Published: 2014-08-12T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

There was a sudden hush in the hall, broken only by the agonised sobs coming from Brenda. Grace gave an embarrassed smile and shrugged at the people that were staring at her. She said, “She’s feeling my pain, sorry.”

A woman nodded vigorously. “She’s really good that one. Enjoy your reading.”

Brenda’s sobs abated. Grace handed her a tissue. Brenda wiped her eyes and tried to smile at Grace.

“I’m so sorry for that. Tell Mae I’m sorry.”

“She can hear you. Do you want to tell me everything? Tell me why you need to say sorry to Mae?”

Grace shot a glance at the CD player. Was it recording? If Brenda was about to confess to a murder shouldn’t she try and get a recorded confession? How? She could hardly ask Brenda to press ‘Record’.

Brenda took a deep sigh and rested her hands on the table. She had such a sad smile on her face that Grace felt her previous dislike of her lessening.

Brenda began. “I never agreed with Mae doing readings, I know now that I was jealous. I had some insights to people too, I saw visions of their future but I kept it to myself. I didn’t want people to befriend me just so they could get information from me. Mae didn’t care, she said she wanted to help people. I wasn’t that soft. The more popular she became, the more jealousy and resentment I built up. Oh, I’m so ashamed. The insults I used to throw at her.”

Grace repeated what Mae had just said. “Mae never hated you, no matter how bad things got between you. She never stopped loving you.”

Brenda waved a hand at Grace. “Stop, you’ll make me cry again. Things came to a head when she gave a reading to Neil, my late husband. He said that she gave him some business advice that he had to follow.”

“I never!” Mae exploded.

“When the business deals went wrong Neil blamed Mae, he said I was never to speak to her again. Things got worse for Neil, he owed money everywhere, we ended up going bankrupt. He committed suicide. He left a note. He blamed Mae for everything, he said she’d even put a curse on him.”

Mae shook her head vehemently. “His death wasn’t my fault.”

Brenda looked directly at Grace. “The thing is, I knew it wasn’t Mae’s fault. I know what she told him, I don’t know how. I must have linked into our twin telepathy, it was quite strong when we were young. I knew Neil was lying but I wanted things to go wrong for him so that I could blame Mae.” She looked away. “Mae got the blame for his death, the rest of my family never spoke to her again, even our parents. It was all my fault, I could have stopped it and told everyone the truth. I wonder if I could even have stopped Neil from killing himself.”

Grace looked over at Mae and said, “Mae never told me about her family not speaking to her.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.