May
Forks, Washington 2011
Mark sat in his car, watching another car come from the other end of the street and pull into the driveway of the house his wife and daughter were living in.
It had been infuriating to come back from a business trip last October to find Sarah and Sydney had disappeared. How could Sarah destroy their family like that? At first, he waited. She had to come back. She had no one else and she was taking Sydney from everything she knew. He knew that Sarah would feel guilty about putting Sydney through that.
But time went on and Sarah didn't return and he started searching. Sarah did well to cover her tracks when she left. Far better than he expected. None of her friends and coworkers knew where she was and hadn't heard from her. For the last months, he'd been running into dead ends.
The breakthrough came when he got a missed call from an unknown number from Forks.
It could have belonged to anyone, but it kept bothering him. So he looked up Forks, a tiny town in the Olympic Peninsula he'd never heard of until then. From there, it wasn't hard to find his wife. In fact, it was annoyingly easy. He didn't know why it didn't occur to him before then to check if she was going by her maiden name. Stupid of him.
He watched Sarah, Sydney and another woman get out of the car. Sydney stumbled tiredly up to the front door, while the woman said something to Sarah that made her laugh. They filed inside, closing the door behind them.
It was strange to watch.
A voice in his head said that they were better off without him.
Anger flashed through him like lightning.
No. He wouldn't accept that.
"Found you, Sarah."
Mark started the car and drove back to his hotel to rest and plan.
AN: things just got real. Thanks for reading and reviewing!