CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
It made no sense to Riley that the scene she was remembering had haunted her for so long. Nothing had actually happened. It was just a conversation that had replayed itself in her mind many times.
The whole thing came back to her again as she sat with her eyes closed in Mike Nevins’s office. She still had no idea what it meant.
Mike said, “Tell me what you’re remembering.”
With her eyes still closed, Riley described the memory to Mike.
“I was maybe five years old. I walked into the kitchen, and Mommy and my sister, Wendy, were talking. Wendy was about fifteen years old. Mommy was crying. Wendy kept saying, ‘Mother, please do it.’ She was crying too. ‘You’ll be much happier. I’ll be much happier. So will Riley. We’ll all be happy.’ But Mommy kept sobbing. ‘I can’t,
