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Chapter 47: Lonely Night

We arrange for me to talk with the police chief tomorrow. I’m going to have to do a lot of lying to make it through that conversation, but I think I can manage it. I don’t think they suspect me anymore, and it’s not like they could guess the truth.

It’s been less than a week since I left St. Louis. Just over a week since mom died. It feels like it’s been years. My life before Springwater feels like a distant memory.

I wish I could talk to my mom about all of this. Not Elana Storm, but the version of her I remember. The one who never knew anything about any of this. The one whose gentle, simple wisdom could have helped me figure out what to do.

Maybe I’m being too harsh on Elana. She was my mom; the same one I’ve known my whole life. She’d have been mortified by everything that’s happened in the last week, but she still would have been there for me, however I needed her to be.