Somewhere Only We Know ....... (34 page)

Snuggling into the pillows she unfolded the
letter and started to read the first page.

Caroline

I want to tell you something I should have told you a long
time ago. It
’
s about your dad, your real dad. If I tell you my
story then it might help you understand who you are.

Caroline re
read the first paragraph twice more. Her mam had never spoken to
her about her real dad. He was a sore subject as far as Caroline
knew. She had often asked when she was younger, before her stepdad
Bill came on the scene, but over the years she had lost
interest.

Bill was everything she could have wanted in
a dad. Not in the beginning, not until she was an adult did she
appreciate him, but he treat her as if he was her own and vice
versa. So her real dad was never mentioned.

All Caroline
knew of him was that he was already married when she was born, as
far as she knew he had never tried to see her. There had never been
birthday or Christmas cards, he
didn
’
t exist.

Now her mam
wanted to tell all,
“
why
now?
”
she thought. Maybe he
had died and left her millions!!! More like her mam was always too
cowardly to talk about him to her face, there was a huge distance
between them now and it wasn
’
t as if she could go running along to see her and ask
awkward questions.

There was
only one way to find out, she was going to have to read the letter.
Find out who the bloke was that
wasn
’
t on her birth
certificate.

She picked up the letter and started to read
on.