Stories
Revisiting The Painful Past
Chapter Four— The Haunting Package — thriller story of a woman confronting her past
Following her baby daughter’s death, Isla withdrew into a smaller, quieter world. Weak and on morphine from the C-section, she hadn’t fully comprehended what was happening. There had been complications from the accident and the doctors had to do an emergency hysterectomy to stop the bleeding from Isla’s uterus. The trauma and surgery had all kept her from seeing her stillborn daughter.
It was safer for her to retreat emotionally. Threatening phone calls from the man’s mother, who was the drunk driver, the dark world Tom worked in, and complications after the delivery, all contributed to her withdrawal from everyone.
The mother of the man demanded an investigation of who was responsible for the car accident. Isla was the one doing the driving that night, Tom had had something to drink and wasn’t up for it. It was determined that the boy who had a blood alcohol level of 0.07% was the one responsible for the accident.
The mother was devastated and refused to believe that he was to blame. She would leave messages on their iPhone that Isla was responsible for her family falling apart. She was going to be a grandmother and her son was going to be the…
