CATHERINE
The drive to Ohio was tense to say the least.
Ellie kept giving me side glances but never said a word. I knew what she was thinking. How has she never heard of our grandmother before?
The truth was that when our mom left, I went looking for her. Followed every trail, every single detail she had left behind but then I stumbled on a letter and took a bus down there. Let’s just say she wasn’t so pleased to see me. I didn’t want Ellie to face the truth of being rejected for the second time so I kept the information to myself.
But now, I didn’t have a choice. Neither did she.
I rolled in slowly into the small quiet suburban neighborhood, the kind of place where secrets spread like wildfire. Night was already slowly falling, the clouds turning shades of gray and purple. The air a
