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Years hadn’t done Nora Montgomery any good. She had gone too long without contact -- and even the littlest thing set her off. A bullet going through her brain had ruined her in more ways than one. She finds herself wandering the halls or crying in an empty room, mourning the loss of her baby.
The new owners ... had brought her out for the first time in a while. After the desperate attempt to take Vivien’s baby , and after the realization that she just wasn’t meant to be a mother, she had found herself back to the usual wandering.
More closure had helped her.
She was better.
The heartache was still there and she wished to find more closure for her life.
She had to speak with Charles. After everything that happened to them, they hadn’t spoken in 90 years. The hole that left was too big ... and she missed him dearly.
She missed what they had, before her mother had passed. When money wasn’t a worry and he wasn’t an addict. They were fine.
All the problems got to them. He was high most of the time and she took out her emotions on him. After all this time, she realized how terrible she had been. He never deserved that ...
And if she had helped him earlier, helped him with his addiction, they wouldn’t be so apart.
There was still ... the killing him bit but the longer they didn’t talk the more it hurt. She wondered if he felt the same. When he handed her one of Vivien’s babies, she had found herself wishing to say something.
She didn’t.
She regrets that.
All the long thinking brought her to here, in front of the basement door, hand hovering over the knob to the door that separated her from Charles.
Gripping the knob and opening the door, she took her first step down the all-too familiar basement steps. After all this time, owners still hadn’t touched the basement as much as the other rooms. In a way, she was thankful for that -- everything else in their beautiful home was taken.