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"Are you going to say anything, Mother?"
Katherine's gaze rises and meets
Andy's. For a moment he becomes lost in the almost hypnotic green of her
eyes: The eyes that soothed him as a little boy, that twinkled with every
victory along his road to adulthood. And he is certain that he can still
see the mother he once knew in there.
"I-I don't know what to say," Katherine
admits at last. "You've just continued to toss all of this information
at me, and ... I'm not certain what to make of it."
"You can't tell me that you're going
to dismiss everything Brent and I have told you."
"No. No, I can't." She pauses, teetering
on the brink of something. "You have given me a lot to consider. I'm beginning
to think that perhaps I did rush into marrying Nick."
Andy's sigh of relief is great. "Finally--"
"However," she says firmly, lifting
a palm to halt his celebration, "if there is one thing I know for certain,
it's that Nick does love me. He risked his life for me, Andrew, even after
I insisted that he save himself. That speaks volumes about how important
we are to one another."
Just as the weight seemed to slip
from Andy's shoulders seconds ago, now it returns to crush him.
"Perhaps I was foolish not to learn
more about his past," Katherine continues. "But we can work through that.
Nick would never allow any harm to come to me, I know that."
Suddenly Andy's frustration twists
itself into fury. "Why are you being so stubborn?" he blasts. "Why won't
you accept what I'm trying to do?"
"Because I know what you're trying
to do! You're trying to--to sabotage Nick because you feel guilty about
abandoning me for Danielle!
You're trying to make everything right by turning
back time."
"That is not true!"
"It's far truer than you want to
acknowledge," Katherine says. "You refuse to admit that you made a mistake
with Danielle, so you're trying to make Nick the problem!"
The wild wheel of emotions that is
rocking Andy finally settles on weariness. He doesn't have this argument
in him, not now.
"As you wish, Mother," he says. He
makes a beeline for the foyer and hears Katherine tailing him. He opens
the front door and then turns back. "I'm only trying to protect you," he
offers weakly as he slips out of the house.
Katherine stands, arms folded, as
her son pulls the door closed behind him and disappears.
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