Free Mystery's Choice (Vengeance Of The Fallen Book 1) by Tanya Simon

and stepped into Seth’s waiting arms.
     
    When the minister had said words and they had lowered her father into the ground, Mystery saw her mother approaching. She braced herself for the coming battle, and walked to meet her.
     
    “Mystery, we simply must talk.”  Sarah said imperiously.
     
    “What do you want mother?”  Mystery clinched her teeth so she wouldn’t scream at her.
     
    “Your father begged me not to tell you the truth while he lived, but now he is dead and I no longer want his secrets, so…”
     
    Mystery stared in awe at the cold, clear eyes. No hints of redness, no bags, no signs she had just buried her husband. And slowly, the awe became hatred.
     
    “Oh, get on with it!  What can’t you wait to tell me?”  She glared at the woman who she’d tried to love and couldn’t. “What secrets, Mother?”
     
    “You’re adopted.”  Sarah waited for the blow to hit home.
     
    Seth tried to catch Sarah as she went flying backwards. Missing, he tried to stop Mystery from hitting her again. Mystery stood right over her, breathing hard. “You lying, cold-hearted, deceitful witch. I never understood what a warm, sensitive man like my father saw in a cold, dried up old fish like you. And I am thankful I don’t have to pretend to care about you for his sake.”  She backed up so Sarah could get to her feet. Seth tried to help her up, but she pushed his hand away and stood. “Now take your lies and get out of here before I finish what I’ve wanted to do most of my life.”
     
    “Believe what you will, but I got a phone call warning me the cult he stole you from wants you back. He was on his way to tell you the truth when he had his accident. Why else would he have been going to Boulder on a weeknight?”  She backed away, hands up, when Mystery lunged at her.
     
    “Sarah I think you had better go.”  Seth said as he fought to keep a hold on Mystery.
     
    “Goodbye Mystery.”  Sarah said as she turned and walked away.
     
    Mystery wrapped her arms around Seth she felt as though he was her only anchor in a sinking world. “What she said can’t be true, can it?”
     
    “I don’t know. We will hire a lawyer to look into it. In the meantime we will just be careful.”  He hugged her back.
     
    “Why would he have lied to me?  Why not tell me the truth?  I wouldn’t have loved him any less.”  She couldn’t hold back the tears any longer and she broke out crying. She began to shiver as she remembered the dream and the bald man’s warning time was running short. She opened her mouth to tell Seth, but all that came out was a loud sob.
     
    “Please God; don’t let it be true, please!”  Mystery prayed silently.
     
    Seth put his chin on top of her head and held her tightly. Rain began to fall softly as tears rolled down her pale, pale cheeks.
     
     
     
     
     
    Mystery rubbed her sweaty palms on the skirt of her rose colored suit, anxiously looking over at Seth. He smiled at her and took her hand. The lawyer would come through the door any moment now and possibly destroy her world. They had hired a lawyer the next morning after her father’s funeral. He had begun looking into the medical records and various other documents from the time she was born. It had taken him only a couple of days to have enough information to want to speak with them again. She squeezed Seth’s hand as the door opened and a short, man with disheveled hair and thick glasses came in the room. He smiled absent-mindedly at them and took a seat behind his desk.
     
    “Thank you for coming in to see me on such short notice, Ms. Williams.”  He shuffled some papers, looked up and studied her face for a moment.
     
    Mystery couldn’t stand it anymore she had to know what he found. “Did you find something?  Am I adopted?”
     
    He focused friendly eyes on her, “I found exactly what we were looking for.”  He shuffled the papers around again, “Sarah Williams has never had a