REWRITE THE STARS
“Still… What I’m feeling now it’s so strange, mummy. I should be happy, but… I’m not. I guess I never thought he’d stay so true to his word. Perhaps he’s not the liar I thought. And my heart is telling me so… Oh, mummy, I’m so confused… so sad… all the time. I wish I could rewrite the stars… I wish I could change the past… What happened to you, to daddy… To me…”
Shaking her head, Calleigh wiped the tears that left cold tracks down her cheeks, chilling beneath the brisk spring wind.
“What should I do?” she said softly.
Her mother’s grave was silent. Calleigh heard only the sigh of the wind through the trees as she stared down at the words on the gravestone.
‘Beloved wife and mother,’ they sai