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Namesake
By Kay Kelly
Rating: T | Status:
Completed | Genre: General | Series: None
Summary: Original Series. An adult talks to a new baby. It's a good
thing the baby doesn't understand...
I'm glad you don’t have my looks, child. My coloring.
Even in the cradle, that's obvious... and I saw disappointment, for a
moment, in your father's eyes.
But he's still happy you're a girl.
If you resembled me, you would also resemble her. The lost love
of his youth... the woman whose ghost has hovered over our marriage bed
these twenty years.
Would I have married him, if I had known? Can't say... I had never seen
her picture. Didn't have a clue, till the years altered my appearance.
By the time I was thirty I no longer reminded him of her. And then I
began to realize he had never loved me at all.
I learned too late why he haunts Widow's Hill. She should have
died there before she did...should have atoned for that disastrous
marriage by leaping from the cliff after her husband's death. Widow's
Hill claimed her, horribly, in the end...
But he refuses to let her go. Must even give you, child, her name. It
wouldn't surprise me if he had a half-dozen bastards somewhere, all
bearing that sainted name.
Yes, I’m glad you don't have my looks. Her looks. I won't have to
smother you as I did the others, the ones who might have been her
reincarnation. I am sorry about the name...but I'll insist on a
different nickname. You'll never know you were named for her.
Named for a common servant... My sister, the sister I never knew. Twenty
years older, disowned by our family after she eloped with that immigrant
fisherman.
A servant! And... the one love of Jamison's life.
Elizabeth Ashby Chavez.
The End
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