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Chapter 110 — Remembrance
And happy days passed like a dream.
It's enjoying was overshadowed just by the fact: Mary becomes to realize that Mason have not plans to tell her details about his kidnapping. And it undermined her sense of being in safe. She tried to ask Mason but every time he avoided to answer and surely said that he's not in danger anymore. Mary wanted to believe it but she was afraid that Mason overestimates his powers. What if he'll kidnap later again? And why he does hide the truth from her?
"Who is hiding the truth from you?" Mason's voice interrupted her thoughts. It seems that the last phrase she uttered aloud.
"You do," Mary turned to him. She's sort out the children's clothes after its cleaning. "You still do not want to say who was behind of your kidnapping."
"I do not hide it. I promised that I'll tell you, and I'll do," he sat on the edge of the table.
"Seems that you are not in hurry."
"Dada!" Chip came to them and stretches out his little arms. Mason picked him up and sat on the table too.
"Mom!" After a second Samantha did the same thing, and smiling Mary sat her on the table beside her bro. Sammy grabbed the tank top from the pile of clothes and put on her head. Her brother did the same thing, but he, unlike her sister, caught panties.
Mary looked at Mason and saw that he hardly resists smiling. She laughed. Sammy tried to pull the tank top down, but got stuck in it.
"Oh-oh, oh-oh," she murmured. Chip immediately came to her rescue and pulled the top to himself, but he grabbing her hair along with top's fabric and Sammy start to crying.
Mary hardly unhooked Chip from his sister's hairs, and helped Sammy pull the tank top off her head. Chip skilled slid to the floor, grabbed the inflatable horse's head from the floor and jumping onto the living room:
"I'm a little pony, I'm a little pony!"
"No, I'm a little pony!" Sammy runs after her brother. "I'm a little pony, not you! Give me!"
"And where they do take so much power?" Mason muttered putting in order crumpled clothes.
"Just do not say that as their age as you was the type of a child who always sitting quietly in the corner and silent. I would never believe it."
"As their age as I was the single child of my parents."
Mary looked at him in silence.
"I want to visit the cemetery," Mason said. "I want to say goodbye to Chris."
"Are you sure that you're ready for it?"
"Yes. Thanks to you."
"Me?"
"For Chris's diary."
"Then rather to my mother. She kept the diary of my father until now."
"So both of yours."
Mary thought over his words for a moment.
"Do you not mind if my mother will join to us?"
"No," Mason said after a pause. "I'm not."
"Thanks. Then I called her and we'll arrange for it."
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One week later Mason is standing in front of Chris' gravestone and thought that finally he can look at it with sadness, but without the grief and pain. In the beginning Kenneth Duval was the absolute stranger for him, and then he becomes his late friend Chris, engendered painful doubts and guilt in his mind. And now he becomes the person who was belong to be — Mary's dad and Brownie's best friend.
Mason lay down flowers and straightened up. Then he looked at Mary and Theda, who were standing at distance. He sighed deeply, with his eyes said goodbye to the gray tombstone and walked over to his wife.
Mary patted him on the shoulder.
"Well, are you OK?"
"I'm fine," he hugged and kissed her. Looked at Theda. Openly looked.
"I'm glad to meet you, Golden Boy," she said. "As Kenny was still alive as I thought that I'll hate you. But I could not. You're mean too much for him."
"Did you aware that Brownie is Capwell?"
"Yes," she nods. "But I admit that firstly it's was difficult for me to match you and Brownie. But now I can see that you actually were him." Theda cupped his cheek. "Kenny could see deeply inside you and see something that I never noticed--:
Mason gasped. He turns aside, hiding his boiling emotions... and was taken away. He saw Larry Duvall who's standing in a few dozen pounds. Mason flushed, realizing that he saw the whole of the scene.
Mary followed his gaze and also saw her uncle.
"What are you doing here?" Her face darkened. "How did you know that we're coming here? Mom?" She turned to Theda.
"I was said by Christie," Larry pushed back from the tree near he's stood.
"Why did you come?"
Larry did not answer. Mary touched Mason's hand.
"Let's go out here."
"You're right. Let's go," Mason stepped to the path leading to the exit from the cemetery and froze.
Cory's stands on the path. Mark McCormick's brother who kidnapped Mason for a few weeks ago.
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