Helen Brenna - Redemption at Mirabelle

“I have no clue,” Missy said. “But you turned sixteen and turned into a by-the-numbers stick-in-the-mud.”

“Oh, it didn’t really happen overnight,” her mother said. “You started working for your father here and there. Slowly, but surely, as you matured, I guess your priorities changed.”

That made sense. She’d enrolled in an after-school painting program in junior high and taken several art classes in high school. Once she’d gotten into college, though, it seemed she never had time for those liberal arts classes.

As if she was curiously listening to their conversation, Julia quietly set aside her finished frame, went to the rain-spattered patio door and looked outside. The next thing Marin knew, the young girl had opened the door and was putting her arm outside. She grinned as raindrops accumulated on her skin.

“All I remember is when you babysat on Friday nights,” Missy went on. “You wouldn’t let me sneak in any TV shows or movies Dad had on his taboo list, you made me and Max go to bed exactly at our bedtime, you wouldn’t let me have a candy bar if I didn’t finish all my supper, and you stood next to me in the bathroom with a timer set for five minutes when I brushed my teeth.”

“I did do all that, didn’t I?”

“You were more strict than Dad.”

“I’m sorry.”

“I don’t want you to be sorry, Marin.” Missy wrapped her arm around Marin’s shoulder. “I want you to get in touch with that long-lost inner child.”

“Sorry to disappoint.” Marin chuckled. “But Wall Street has a way of smothering inner children.”

“So revive her,” her mother said softly. “Take your father’s tapes out of your head and listen to your own.”

Suddenly, Julia turned toward Angelica. “Can I go outside?”

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