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Chapter 77 — Memories
In the next morning Mary wake up late when Mason already left out to the court. Without children who constantly demanded to them her attention, the apartment seems be an empty. Beside Mary was some nervous. Her anxiety only is up when she thought how her mother actually concerned Mason's offer about his children. Hardly was she delighted as if he told her yesterday... She perfectly knew how Theda concerns about the world of upper classes.
She gets up and suddenly saw the object in the gift wrapper with the short note pinned on the top. Mary takes the note and read words outlined by Mason's hasty handwriting.
"It's for you, don't miss me, I'll back soon!"
Mary feels that the warm is spreading inside her, and someone is softly pushed in her tummy.
"Yes, it from the daddy," she said, stroking her tummy. "Now we'll look for that he left for us."
In the box was the toy monkey with the smacking dummy in her mouth. Mary loudly burst out laughing. Oh, Mason! I never become bored with you!
A few hours later she already sitting in the car and look at Mason's profile. "My husband," thought she. "How many time still passed before I will get used to it? So strange to think that nobody want to separate us--"
"I shaved badly today, did I?" she heard the voice of her man about who she thought. "Your looking makes me feeling like if I am under a microscope."
"No," she smiled. "Just I think how you manage to guess what I need. Your gift was the point today."
"I am very lucky. Until now I still cannot believe that I was so lucky that you came back to me."
Mary shuddered. Really he thinks about it too? And Mason continued his thought: "I hardly can forget that I was on the edge to losing you forever."
Mary kept silent, and Mason quickly looked at her. "Oh, I am sorry. I did not want to go deeper into the past."
"It's OK. But I... I do not want to remember it. Then there were happened so much all awful events... I so strongly want that it's never done!"
The silence fallen in the car, and then Mason cautiously said: "We almost arrived."
They were met by Theda with Samantha on her hands. Mary's mother informed them that Christie could not come because Jimmy.
"He is going to become the great photographer, and they are making his resume," she sniffed and led them to the house.
To the lunch they found out that "children were just angels and make no troubles at all". Mary accepts this information mistrustfully by her own experience knowing that Chip obviously cannot apply for a rank of an angel, except for his sleep time. However, Theda obviously was cheerful. And Mason had so blessed look while she talks dithyrambs about his kids that Mary finally became giggle.
However it proceeded only until Theda remember the scampish twin brother of her husband and begins to loudly resent how he makes it with his own nieces. Mary decided that it is time to interfere.
"Yes, Uncle Larry's acting was awfully," she agreed with her mother. "But daddy fortunately was not like him. Uncle Larry could not rescue me when I was lost as daddy did."
Mary looked forward Theda's answer, but she was strangely silent. Mary lifted her head from the plate.
"Is something wrong?" she asked when the pause becomes too long.
"Sweetie... I just do not understand about what you are speaking. How far I remember that you were never lost with Kenneth was finding you. It's never happened."
Mason worried looked at Mary, feeling that she tries to find out about what they spoke the day before.
"Are you sure? Just I recently have the same dream for every night. The dream that I'm walking on shantytown, and then someone rescues me. And I know that it was daddy. And I thought that may be it's was actually in reality?"
Theda was silent so long that Mary already decides that she any more will not answer. But then she said: "So you are speaking about--"
"It means that it's in reality?" Mary's heart alertly pulsed. If Mason was right?
"It was. But in the different way against that you think."
"What you mean?"
"You were not lost. And Kenneth did not find you. You were kidnapped, and Larry was the person who brought you back home. It was already much later after Kenneth's death, may he rest in peace."
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