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I Had Forgotten Her Chapter 11
Somebody came and put in a new door the day before I left.I looked at the new door and the apartment scrubbed clean, then went straight to the landlord to end the lease and checked into a hotel near Ravenport International.I was at the terminal early the next morning.I'd waited two years for that day.I started planning a life on the road before I was even out.When I couldn't settle on a first stop, Dr. Porter told me, "Go see Juniper Mesa outside the rainy months. The dry air and the elevation should be easier on that leg."I went out there on leave once. I think you'd love it."He'd looked after me for years in there, and after Grandma died he was the only person I trusted.So I stopped going back and forth about it and started planning.Now I could finally go.I was heading for security when I thought I heard someone behind me call my name.Travelers were moving in every direction and the terminal was loud.I turned around and there was nobody there.Down in the dep
I Had Forgotten Her Chapter 10
It looked like it had taken everything she had, and she added it quickly, like she was afraid of putting weight on me."I just want the chance to make it right."There was something Marina never seemed to understand.Nobody could see what she buried. Everything she let show was written all over her face.I hadn't called her on it before, and I didn't now.I smiled, told her no, and went back to the rental.The door had been clean that morning. Now it was covered in spray paint.Home-wrecker. Murderer. Nobody's bastard.The words meant nothing. I'd heard every one of them more than once back when Marina and I were falling apart.What I hadn't counted on was Marina following me up and seeing them too.Her first reaction was, "Who did this?"Then she worked out the answer, and her voice got smaller and smaller until it turned into an apology."I'm sorry. I didn't think he'd go this far."For once I didn't let it pass. "You didn't?"You know him better than anybody. That's wh
I Had Forgotten Her Chapter 9
In the six months I spent running deliveries after I got out, I picked up bits and pieces about Ravenport's tech scene.Derek had swallowed his pride and chased Marina for three years, and she'd never once said yes.She'd finally started to soften right around the time I walked out of prison.I moved Marina out of the way, didn't argue with him, and just nodded."You're right. I shouldn't be here. Go on with your conversation. I'm leaving."Flat, easy, like none of it had anything to do with me.The bad leg made the stairs slow, slow enough that I heard the two of them start in on each other."Why are you protecting him? Have you lost your mind?""And who are you to ask me that? What exactly are you to me?""Marina, don't you forget that everything you've got came through doors I opened.""Don't flatter yourself, Derek. I drank myself sick closing every one of those deals."It sounded so familiar.Like being back a few years, in the middle of a fight with her.Except now i
I Had Forgotten Her Chapter 8
After that visit, Grandma Ruth came every two weeks.Rain or snow, nothing stopped her, and she kept it up for two years.With her and the psychologist the prison brought in, I slowly climbed back out of it.But I still hated Marina.I still couldn't make my peace with it.The thing that finally wore it down was Grandma.In my third year inside, her visits got further and further apart.The last time I saw her, she talked almost the whole hour.About finding me when I was small. About putting Marina and me through school.The woman who had never cried in front of me suddenly couldn't stop."I didn't raise Marina right, and that's why she did things no decent person would do. But Adrian, you two are the only children I've got. I don't want to watch you turn on each other."Call it selfish if you want. When you get out, don't go after her. Please."She looked at me through the tears.It was the first time I could remember Grandma taking Marina's side, and the first time I ev
I Had Forgotten Her Chapter 7
A gust of wind came up out of nowhere, tore one of the pages loose, and cut Marina off.I checked the time. There was somewhere else I had to be."I've got somewhere to be. Unless it's urgent, it can wait."I'd gone a few steps when Marina caught my hand.She spoke fast, like she was afraid I wouldn't hear all of it."What I did to you back then was wrong. I never should have used you to climb."Adrian, I can't ever pay back what I owe you. Whatever you want, I'll give you."I looked into Marina's bright eyes and thought of Grandma Ruth.They were too much alike.It isn't true that I never hated Marina.In my first months inside, the way the other men told it, I was the strange one, lucid one hour and gone the next.I'd shut myself in the showers and scrub until the skin came off.I'd scream if I saw a heavyset woman.Sometimes I'd stop in the middle of work detail and start talking to people who weren't there.The officers saw there was something wrong with me and moved
I Had Forgotten Her Chapter 6
For the next several days Marina didn't leave the house or contact Derek once.She stayed with me every hour of it.When the fever wouldn't break, she changed the cloth on my forehead more times than I could count.When I came out of a nightmare, she talked me back down and back to sleep.When I couldn't stand the idea of seeing anybody, she cut off every meeting and every business call she had.I let myself believe, pathetically, that it was because she cared.Then Derek showed up with a stack of contracts, and started laying out photographs of women I didn't know."You might not know these faces, but your body does."Thanks to you, every one of them signed off on a project for Marina."He matched each photograph to an agreement, one after another, until there was a roaring in my head."What... what are you saying?"Derek laughed under his breath, enjoying every second of it."Still not getting it, brother?"Marina's been climbing over you this whole time. That marriage c
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