Weathering the Storm

 The day was finally over as Max and Deanna packed up the two small children, Henry and Michelle, from the office that they all shared in the basement of the old building. It had been a week and few days since Deanna’s worst day when all the truth had come out about her parent’s death, which had happened a few days prior to the news being blasted all over the television and radio. When it was announced that her oldest brother David, who was also her biological father, had not only killed his parents but also had caged and raped numerous of his cousins, the news went wild with the story.Deanna had accepted the news of her birth and that of the two small children who were now in her care with Max as a fact even before the blood tests had come back. When they did, and she knew for a fact her mother was both her mother and grandmother, Her brother was both her brother and father. It was disgusting to

 The children went to bed easily now that they had a system. Henry had been moved upstairs to his new bedroom while the baby still slept in the portable crib in their bedroom. Michelle woke up a few times a night to have a bottle. Deanna cleaned up the kitchen as Max looked at the box of opened letters.He had to guess there were over a few thousand dollars sitting in another bin. He was amazed, but he was trying to think about what David was doing right now. The man only worked for his own interest. To bombard his oldest daughter with letters like this was very much in his plan. He shook his head and wondered if they would ever get the chance to understand the man that causes so much pain.Max hoped Deanna would finish doing whatever she was doing and quickly. They both needed to shower and then relax before bed. He had a few ideas on how to find that relaxation. He walked back to see

  The next few days were basically a repeat of the days previously before. When they got home, there would be a mail truck waiting with more bins each time. Every day for nearly a week. Thousands of letters all for David but addressed to her. Money in nearly every one of them. By the time they had gone through them all, there were fifteen thousand dollars in the other bin that they had put the money in.“This is ridiculous,” Deanna said as she looked at it. “First off, we can’t keep it in here or anywhere in the house.”“Well, what should we do with it?” Max asked as he moved through the house after he had placed Henry upstairs in his bed for the night. She had done the same with Michelle a few minutes before. “Did you talk with the lawyer?”“I did, and all he could say w

  Max could see she was starting to hate when they were going home. She knew what was waiting for them when they did arrive. The boxes would be stacked at the front door and piled high. She was starting to hate everything about those hours that she would have to open the letters to get what was inside and then throwing the letters into a box for the police to go through. He thought of something that might make her ease a bit.When they loaded up the car, he turned on the music and started driving. She had closed her eyes and laid her head back, so Deanna had no idea they were headed to somewhere other than their house. About ten minutes into the drive, which would be nearing their house, she opened her eyes and saw that they were nowhere near it. She looked at Max with a confused look on her face.“I thought we were going home?” Deanna said so

  Max looked at Deanna as they enjoyed the last of the day at the park down the road from his parent's house. She seemed more relaxed than she had been in the past few days. He wanted to keep her that way. He needed to keep her that way, but he didn’t know how to. That was an underlying thing he wanted to give her, that sense of peace to be able to go through her days without thinking all the time about the things that lay ahead. It all came back to those damn letters that her brother was having sent to her. There had to be something he could do to get them to stop coming.The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to go and have a little chat with David himself though he knew that would end badly for the both of them. There had to be a way around the federal laws and have them go somewhere else. He then had an idea, but it wasn’t for right now. He wanted the re