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Chapter 43 — Return Of Prodigal Relatives
The storm came for all night. When it cause especially strong burst or lighting cut too brightly a sky, Mary did embrace Mason more strong. His close presence gave her such calmly that she even smiled in her dream. Mason sleep deeply and without dreams. He completely controlling a situation, and it was all that he wants. Christie sleep nervously occasionally gives a start when her dreams become too strongly to look alike with reality.
For many miles from them CC Capwell sleep deeply in his huge house, now sure that his loving daughter in safety after all. And the happily found daughter drugged sleep in Santa Barbara Hospital. She did not see dreams, but the reality was not too attractive for her.
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The morning met habitants of the cabin near Tahoe with bright Californian sun. Thus, this dries up all around for a few hours and up to evening to warm up to a usual hot condition.
Mason going downstairs tying his tie. Mary already cooked coffee and placed cups on the table. Christie sat with cross legs on the sofa and thumbing through any old magazine. Mason come to Mary and kisses her in her lips. The kiss becomes some too longer and Christie demonstrate noisy is up from the sofa. Mason stopped to kiss Mary and reproachfully looked at Christie.
"Um, well. I am OK. You both can kiss as long as you want!"
Mary chuckled and then embraces her sister.
"Sitting at the table," she said. "Fried eggs with become already is ready, and toasts is close too. Now I get its."
"Not hurry," Mason pulls her and forced to sit. "You need have a cup of coffee. I do not absolutely want that you became a fat housewife."
"Not worry, I don't going to become one of theirs," Mary smiles. "So, any plans for today?"
"It seems we need to return at home," Mason guilty looked at her. "Its pity to leave this cabin where we can be together and alone, but now Santa Barbara is the place where we need be. Beside the children surely miss about us."
"It's OK," Mary takes his hand. "In any case we would be return then. I don't like the situation with Christie."
"Nobody in this house like not it," Christie said and takes a sip of coffee.
Already after hour all three sat in the car and drive in the direction of Santa Barbara. And in the empty cabin ringing the phone — the family desperately called to Mason for informs him that his sister Eden is alive.
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"They are in troubles surely!" Kelly dialed the phone number of cabin again. "I called them yesterday and today too, but nobody picking up the receiver. Christie drove there and now she disappearance too!"
"Who is Christie?" Ted comes in. He arrived yesterday and was aware about a half of all news only.
"Duvall. Christie Duvall, Mary's sister."
"Mary's sister??? But why she did?"
"If you really do not know?" Kelly suspiciously looked at him.
"Surely I don't! What is happened?"
"I will explain, but not here and not now. Dad called from hospital: Eden release out from the hospital today. Do you do not knew about this?"
"I knew. But I did not think that here is more news--"
"Here are more. You do not know even a half of its. Lately there was happened so many!"
"Kelly!"
"What?"
"You always are up to me scoffed! Always!"
"Little poor Teddy! Go away! Don't touch me!"
"Be quiet, children," Rose come to them. These words, already enough times were heard by them in childhood, worked as a bucket of cold water. Ted pulled his fingers from Kelly's hair and she jump away for decent distance. She touched her tousled hair and upset said: "You destroyed my hairstyle!"
"You deserved it!"
At the point there is ringing door's bell.
"It is Eden!" Kelly and Ted rushed to the door. Yesterday they had only short meeting with their sister in hospital, and now they cannot wait to see her again.
Kelly was first and opened a door. But instead Eden she got Mason, Mary and Christie who was looking out from Mary's back.
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