I took her hand. “Mom, Evelyn left a letter for you. Rebecca has it. But first, I need the truth.”
“Evelyn kept this?”
She finally told me everything.
***
After Dad left, Mom struggled to support us.
She worked at the cafeteria during the week and cleaned houses on Saturdays.
Evelyn was one of her clients.
She finally told me everything.
“At first, Evelyn barely spoke,” Mom said. “Then we started talking while I cleaned.”
Evelyn had recently lost her husband, and they’d planned to open a hotel near the ocean.
She was scared of managing everything alone.
***
One afternoon, Evelyn found Mom crying.
Our landlord had wanted to kick us out for not paying.
“Evelyn barely spoke.”
Evelyn wrote a check to cover three months of rent!
“She said she didn’t want you boys losing your home.”
