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computer. What’s your email address?” she asked as she held the phone with one hand, and fumbled with the camera with the other. After receiving the information, she said, “Hang on just a sec, and open your email, I’ll only be a few seconds .”
Placing her still-open phone down, her hands flew over the keyboard, opening her yahoo mail account. Quickly uploading the picture, she hit *send*, snatched the phone back up and said, “Ok, you should be getting it any second…”
“Alright…”
After what seemed like an eternity, she heard the woman gasp loudly, then begin to cry.
“Ohhhh my baby!" the voice wailed. “My baby is alive and well. Oh, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord, thank you for hearing my prayers!”
The relief and joy in the woman’s voice was music to her ears, and unable to help herself, she began to weep for joy herself. She would have never thought something like this would happen to her, she had always believed things like this only happened on television. She was responsible for reuniting a long lost child with her mother!
“Ms. Barns, Cynne’, oh, how can I ever thank you? Thank you, so, so much! God bless you!”
“You’re welcome, Ms. Ames, and your relief and happiness are all the reward I need or want.”
“Please, can you tell me about her? How is she, what is she doing ? “
“Well, ma’am, Karen is the name I know her by, Karen Washington. Physically she is mostly well, except for fatigue and frequent migraines,” she replied cautiously, not wanting to traumatize the woman about the attack three years prior. “And, well, there’s this one thing, she doesn’t remember her life as Cassandra Mortenson.
“What do you mean?”
For the next hour she told the woman about Cassandra and her new life, explaining that her loss of memory was due to some type of accident Cassandra had been in, which she never discussed with anyone. The lie made her feel guilty, but she felt it was a necessary evil at the time, and that the news of the vicious attack should be made known to her only after seeing with her own to eyes that Cassandra was healthy, physically. Before hanging up, they made arrangements for Jocelyn to fly out to meet her the next day.
Chapter 6
Crawling up on her bed with a plate of Mongolian Beef, Karen smacked her lips in anticipation. She was addicted to the food from a small, mom and pop Chinese take-out on her block. Every Sunday she would order after she returned home from early mass. The ritual had been going on for so long in fact; the owners always had her food prepared and ready for her before she ever walked through the door.
The incident with the Asian man from the day before completely forgotten, she planned on eating and watching season eight of the X-files on DVD, a gift Brett have given her for Christmas. Taking a bite, she closed her eyes and let out a contented sigh. This was her idea of a relaxing day. This was basically the only free time she ever had. When she wasn’t working at the children’s home, she was doing volunteer work.
Taking her pills from her nightstand, she took her new medication, chasing it down with a big gulp of diet coke.
Clinking the DVD player on, she sighed again, completely content, starry-eyed at the sight of David Duchovny. Balancing her plate on her lap, she dug into her food with gusto.
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Frustrated, Granger paced the sitting room in the Flagstone Inn. He had arrived four hours after getting the call from Raidon Bishop, and he had had to wait ten hours for the man to show up. And he wasn’t a man who was used to waiting on other people.
“I went to Doctor Parker’s office, the shrink who’s been treating your wife since her attack, and I found these in the office.” Raidon said as he nearly hurled the pictures down on the table. Ever
Placing her still-open phone down, her hands flew over the keyboard, opening her yahoo mail account. Quickly uploading the picture, she hit *send*, snatched the phone back up and said, “Ok, you should be getting it any second…”
“Alright…”
After what seemed like an eternity, she heard the woman gasp loudly, then begin to cry.
“Ohhhh my baby!" the voice wailed. “My baby is alive and well. Oh, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord, thank you for hearing my prayers!”
The relief and joy in the woman’s voice was music to her ears, and unable to help herself, she began to weep for joy herself. She would have never thought something like this would happen to her, she had always believed things like this only happened on television. She was responsible for reuniting a long lost child with her mother!
“Ms. Barns, Cynne’, oh, how can I ever thank you? Thank you, so, so much! God bless you!”
“You’re welcome, Ms. Ames, and your relief and happiness are all the reward I need or want.”
“Please, can you tell me about her? How is she, what is she doing ? “
“Well, ma’am, Karen is the name I know her by, Karen Washington. Physically she is mostly well, except for fatigue and frequent migraines,” she replied cautiously, not wanting to traumatize the woman about the attack three years prior. “And, well, there’s this one thing, she doesn’t remember her life as Cassandra Mortenson.
“What do you mean?”
For the next hour she told the woman about Cassandra and her new life, explaining that her loss of memory was due to some type of accident Cassandra had been in, which she never discussed with anyone. The lie made her feel guilty, but she felt it was a necessary evil at the time, and that the news of the vicious attack should be made known to her only after seeing with her own to eyes that Cassandra was healthy, physically. Before hanging up, they made arrangements for Jocelyn to fly out to meet her the next day.
Chapter 6
Crawling up on her bed with a plate of Mongolian Beef, Karen smacked her lips in anticipation. She was addicted to the food from a small, mom and pop Chinese take-out on her block. Every Sunday she would order after she returned home from early mass. The ritual had been going on for so long in fact; the owners always had her food prepared and ready for her before she ever walked through the door.
The incident with the Asian man from the day before completely forgotten, she planned on eating and watching season eight of the X-files on DVD, a gift Brett have given her for Christmas. Taking a bite, she closed her eyes and let out a contented sigh. This was her idea of a relaxing day. This was basically the only free time she ever had. When she wasn’t working at the children’s home, she was doing volunteer work.
Taking her pills from her nightstand, she took her new medication, chasing it down with a big gulp of diet coke.
Clinking the DVD player on, she sighed again, completely content, starry-eyed at the sight of David Duchovny. Balancing her plate on her lap, she dug into her food with gusto.
********************************************************
Frustrated, Granger paced the sitting room in the Flagstone Inn. He had arrived four hours after getting the call from Raidon Bishop, and he had had to wait ten hours for the man to show up. And he wasn’t a man who was used to waiting on other people.
“I went to Doctor Parker’s office, the shrink who’s been treating your wife since her attack, and I found these in the office.” Raidon said as he nearly hurled the pictures down on the table. Ever
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