Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 5 - Part 9

“Forgive me for being selfish but I never told Cassie or her Grandmother about you at first because I wanted her all to myself." said Maud. "Weren't they ever curious about where you were staying?" I asked. "I just told them that I was staying with a very strict aunt who did not allow me to have visitors. However, when Cassie found her birth certificate in the letter that her Grandmother had hidden for so many years she was adamant that she was going to find her father. She said she had a friend

Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 5 - Part 8

“Conroy is my nephew too.” she repeated. “I heard you the first time! What do you mean by that?” I asked her. Maud sat down in the chair across from me and started to cry. “I promised Great-Aunt Charlotte that I would never say anything to you.” she said between her sobs. “What! What the hell did you promise Great-Aunt Charlotte that you would never say to me?!" I exclaimed. “What did you promise not to say?" I asked again, much more quietly because I did not want Conroy to wake up. With tears streaming down her cheeks Maud told me that she was

Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 5 - Part 7

I woke up with the intention of taking Conroy to spend the day with me at the Hope Zoo so I went into the kitchen to prepare some sandwiches to take with us. What seemed strange to me, however, was that there was no sound coming from the yard outside. I wondered why it was so quiet as normally Maud would be up washing or hanging out clothes to dry on the line, singing at the top of her lungs and the dogs would be up and about chasing the stray cats that every now and then would come into the yard. I peeped