Chapter Fifteen
Session Five…
“You’ve had a busy life in the years since we had our first sessions.” Dr. Ramsey opened the next hour with that observation, to which jumped right in:
“I guess I have.”
“But you haven’t even approached the reason you called three weeks ago. Am I right?”
“Yes,” she grinned self-consciously.
“But let’s back up just a bit…a few observations if you’ll permit me.”
didn’t object, though she could feel her anxiety start to rise. She’d almost not come to the appointment, knowing that when the last session with Dr. Ramsey ended there were no more sordid tales about the past to tell, just the story of Vienna and Padraig. “Sure, why not?” she answered in a shaky voice.
“What I have seen, Shelby,” the doctor began, is that you’ve grown up quite a bit since I s
