Burn Those Who Burned Me novel Chapter 146

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I could feel my heart getting heavy thinking about Sammy.

“You see, he’d just passed away a few weeks prior from kidney failure and I wasn’t coping

with it too well.”

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When I looked up at her face, I could see Gracie’s intense gaze as tears started to fill her

eyes.

“I’m so sorry to hear about your friend.”

She practically whispered as the tears began to fall. I realized in that moment; I could never bare to see her cry. I smiled gently and handed her a napkin.

“Thank you for that, Sammy was great kid…you would have really liked him. That day I was at the beach, nothing was working…I could feel myself drowning deeper into sadness…that was until this very interesting little girl walked up to me.‘

“I hadn’t even noticed until she asked me if I wanted some of her sea stones. When I didn’t respond, she then asked me if I wanted some of her seashells telling me how her mom always thought she took too many.”

I chuckled lightly thinking about 10 year old Gracie and her frivolous rambling about seashells. Gracie, however, her face was in shock. It looked as if her memories of that day were flooding into her mind, I continued.

“Rudley, I asked this girl why she was bothering me, to which she replied… you look like you’re sad‘. She was quite the little mind reader. Before I could respond, she offered to play her violin. Calling me a dummy when I demanded why she stopped playing.”

Tears were streaming down her face as Gracie sat with her hand over her mouth. The realization was pouring into her mind. She remembered the boy she played her music for.

“T–That…was you?”

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Her voice was shaky and stared directly into my eyes, I felt like my heart was beginning to ache, I didn’t like seeing her cry. I gently grabbed her hand, smiling into the face of the woman I’d loved since I was 12. Nodding my head, I continued.

“Yes. Ten years ago, when I was at my saddest, the most remarkable girl changed my life with through her music with her pure heart. She left me promising we would meet again because we were friends.”

I realized in that moment the term ‘friends‘ felt like acid on my tongue. It wasn’t

enough. It never was.

“I looked for you.”

Her words snapped me back to the present.

What????

“You did?”

“Yes, when I got home…I realized I never asked you for your name. I was so frustrated with myself. I went back to the beach almost every day hoping to see you there.”

I smiled apologetically thinking about how we moved right after I’d met her.

“After that day, my dad had to go to Conrad for a two year project.”

“Ohh-”

“And by the time I came back…I couldn’t find you. I didn’t your full name, so I also went to the beach almost every day.”

Gracie eyes sadden as if she were remembering something.

“My adoptive mother passed away in a car accident when I was twelve. By the time you came back, I was probably already in North Bay with the Rochesters.”

Rochesters??? Why?

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“Gracie, why were you with them?”

She looked at me with malice in her eyes, I could tell she held a great deal of contempt towards that family; but why?

She wiped the corners of her eyes and took a deep breath.

“Because I’m their biological daughter. My birth name was Rochester”

“So, you were adopted? Why? I mean…I just didn’t expect the Rochesters too-”

Gracie smiled and held up her and as if to stop me from explaining myself.

“It’s an interesting and long story, but apparently I was taken from the hospital when I was born.”

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