Ok I no there is no excuse for not updating in 4 months but my reason is a simple one. Life. This year has been incredible busy. Since I last updated I received my results from my Level one NCEA exams, I started year 12 at school and have all academic classes so my days are filled with mind draining work and it is now the holidays so I trying really hard to update coz I no everyone hates when I don't. I'll try and work on the next chapter as much as I can but I can make no promises. Anyway I hope you enjoy.
This chapter is dedicated to Ivy who is living it up in Italy right now. I HOPE YOUR HAVING AN AWESOME TIME!!!!!
Max was infuriated. How dare this random man come in and yell at her mum like that. Her mum never did anything wrong. Sure she ran away from her family and that but Max was certain that she had a very good reason for that. Morgan Rowlands never did anything without a reason.
Hunters mind clouded over in shock. Could this beautiful little girl really be his daughter? If she was then that meant he hadn't been there for the first nine years of her life. He had been such a bad father without even meaning to be. All these thoughts were shoved aside by a single pure emotion that ran through him, directed at Morgan for keeping this from him. Rage.
Morgan was frozen in fear. This couldn't be happening. Hunter was face to face with his daughter and she knew he had figured it out. You didn't need to be a rocket scientist to see the resemblance between them. She glanced at Hunter quickly, and almost cried at what she saw.
His jaw was clenched and his eyes blazed with anger. Morgan's spirit sank. There was a small part of her that was hoping Hunter would try to be there for the two of them in the future. But she knew that anger like his would never go away. He was angry with her for running, and Morgan didn't think she could face that anger. Not now not ever. This was exactly why she didn't want to come back.
So, once again, she ran.
Fast as lightning she gathered up Max in her arms and ran out the door towards her car. She heard her family and friends yelling at her to come back but she couldn't face him again. She wretched open the back door and gently placed Max in her seat and told her to do up her seat belt. She closed the door and climbed in the drivers seat. She started the car just as her mother came running up to the car and banging on the window.
"Morgan! Don't leave us again! We can work through this!" Cried Mary Grace, tears sliding down her cheeks. Morgan began to cry herself. She took one last look at her mother.
"I'm sorry mom, but I can't do it."
And with that she sped away down the street into the night.
Max didn't dare say a word. She knew her mother was upset right now so she sat in silence as her Morgan drove distraughtly across town. She screeched to a halt outside their hotel and Morgan told Max to wait in the car as she fetched their luggage and paid the bill.
When that was done Morgan speed back onto the road, heading out of town. Max leaned over the front seat slightly so she could see her mothers face. It was pale white and tear streaked, her eyes wide with anguish.
"M…Mum. Where are we going? Who was that man back there?"
Morgan stayed silent for a second before answering in a quite, controlled voice.
"Where going home Max."
Max was scared. She had never seen her mum like this before. She didn't argue, although she wanted to. She knew it wasn't the time.
Max gazed out the window as the night sped past. They had just got to the outskirts of town, near a field hemmed in bush with a lone tree standing proudly in the clearing, when the car let out an obnoxious groan.
"Oh no!" exclaimed Morgan as the engine spluttered and died and the car came to a gentle stop. She manager to direct the vehicle to the side of the road while it was still moving so she didn't stop traffic. She pulled the handbrake on and sighed, resting her head on the steering wheel.
"Maybe we should go back to Grandma and Grandpa's…" said Max cautiously.
Morgan sighed and turned to look at her daughter.
"I'm sorry honey but we can't do that. That man, well, I don't really get along with him anymore and if he's there then I really don't want to go back. How about we head home. I know that you miss Jessica and Makayla."
Morgan saw a disappointed look on Max's face but the little angle didn't complain, knowing her mother had a reason for everything. She looked out the window, trying to think of something to do. They were stuck on the side of the road and they had to get to the airport somehow. But then, the field they were parked next to seemed very familiar.
She distinctly remembered the many days when she was a teenager that she would come here with Robbie and Bree. They would park under the big tree and walk through the bush at the far end of the field to the small clearing at the edge of the river. A much stronger memory was one of when she had stumbled along that same path 10 years ago before she left town, her heart heavy and a hand placed protectively over her stomach.
And just then the circumstances seem too much to be just a coincidence. She had come here 10 years ago because she had lost faith in what she thought was the answer in her life and she need to clear had head and take Wicca out of her life for a bit. Now it seemed to be calling to her to let down her shields and embrace her religion once more.
She knew what she had to do.
Before she was even fully aware of what she was doing Morgan had flung her door open and stepped out. She grabbed her and Max's coats from the back seat the leaned down to talk to Max who was still sitting in the passenger seat, puzzled.
"Come on Max, where going for a walk."
Max, knowing better to complain, stepped out of the car waited for her mother, who gave Max her coat and took her hand reassuringly.
Ok so I roughly know where the stories going so I'll try and start in the next chapter now. I'm sorry that it's such a short chapter but i thought you would rather it be short than me not update at all. Thank you to all the people who are reading Letters, I love that so many people are into it. Wuv u Minx.
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