I Killed My Mother

Chapter 26

Wednesday, 2015/02/15, 15:05
The Mount Hotel...Indiana

I paced up and down the room I share with Jessica. They had gone out again and left me to my thoughts about Catherine. I still couldn't let it sink in. Why wasn't I told this and how does Jacky know. She hasn't replied to my message yet but I know she saw it. I sent it two hours ago so my patience was wearing thin.

I grabbed my phone from the bed and saw no texts or missed calls. If she had nothing to hide, then why was she ignoring me?

I dialed her number and it rang for a long while before she picked up. She was definitely ignoring me.

"Hi," Jacky stuttered on the other side.

"And...Are you gonna tell me?" I pressed.

"I really don't know what you are talking about," she lied. Dan is a bad influence.

"Cut the bullshit Jacky. I heard you threaten Dan. Clearly something is up. I'm not an idiot,"I barked.

After a few moments she finally spoke "Okay okay. I'll tell you. But face-to-face. I'm coming there," she said in surrender.

"No. Don't bother. We'll talk when I get back," and I hung up.

I heard the door fly open and assumed it was Jessica and Spencer. I assumption was partly correct. Accompanying them was Francis. What was he doing here?

"Hello Kate. So I was thinking about you situation and remembered something. Your father was engaged again to another woman. I don't remember who she is but I have her address and everything. He asked me to take pictures of him and her," Francis was blabbering. All he was saying really didn't make sense. From what I could tell, Dan met Wendy in California. But it wouldn't hurt to go to this address.

"Jess let's go," I called out to her.

"She got recognized. She can't leave. We'll just have to do it without her," Spencer whispered into my ear. Shit. What if that person who recognized her calls the cops? We have to get out of here and fast.

My heart was fighting to escape chest. This was all happening too fast. First I find out that Jacky deceived the state with a false statement, then I find out she knows about my dead twin and now I was standing in the driveway of a somewhat important address.

"I'll knock. You guys can stay here," Francis said and he walked up to knock on the door. A woman with a baby on her hip answered the door. She looked tired. Her hair was a mess and so was her baby. Spencer and I watched the exchange between the two adults.

"Have you spoken to Jacky about Catherine?" Spencer asked.

"Yeah. She said it was something to discuss face-to-face," I had told Spencer and Jessica about Jacky's threats to Dan. So he was up-to-date with everything.

Francis waved us over and we went to him.

"Yeah?'' I questioned.

"I asked the lady how long they have lived here and she said fourteen years. They bought the house from a man named Daniel Johnson," Francis informed us. Feeling proud of himself. Why did he go out if his way to do all of this for a group of strangers?

"Yeah. I still have a box of their belongings in the attic. They never came back for it," the woman said. Yup. She was a victim of abuse. I can tell. Not just from the fading bruise under her eye.

"Can we take a look?" I asked.

"Yeah. Sure. I'll go get it. Come in."

She came back two minutes later with a wooden box. She handed it over to me and I wasted no time going through it.

Inside were a lot of papers. Charms and sentimental things like that. The papers were marriage forms, divorce papers and...adoption forms.

Was I adopted?

I pushed that thought out of my mind because it wasn't nearly as important and the next thing I saw. A photograph of Dan and another pregnant woman who I immediately recognised as not my mother but Jacky.

Jacky Saldana was once obviously engaged to my father before the accident.

BUT JACKY HASN'T MENTIONED ANY KIDS. DID SHE HAVE A MISCARRIAGE?

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