For months, I watched my mom climb onto a man’s motorcycle and disappear for hours, returning lighter each time. I thought the rides were helping her survive Dad’s death. After she was gone, I learned those Saturdays had carried her toward a part of her past she had spent decades avoiding.
The huge biker who had spent months taking my mother away every Saturday waited until after her funeral to tell me the rides had been a lie.
It wasn’t a cruel lie.
It was something worse.
Something that made me question the woman I’d spent 47 years believing I knew better than anyone.
It wasn’t a cruel lie.
***
Connor found me near the back of the room after the service. Without his leather jacket, he somehow looked even bigger. He wore a dark suit, his gray-streaked beard had been trimmed, and his eyes were red.
“Your mom was an amazing woman, Mia.”
“She thought a lot of you too. Those rides were the happiest I’d seen her since Dad died.”
Connor glanced toward the relatives behind us.
“That’s why I need to tell you something.”
“She thought a lot of you too.”
“What?”
“Those weren’t exactly scenic rides.”
My stomach tightened.
“Then where were you taking her?”
He held my gaze.
“To see my mother.”
“Those weren’t exactly scenic rides.”
I stared at him.
“Why would Mom spend every Saturday with your mother? Do I know her?”
Connor took a breath.
“Her name is Diane.”
The name meant nothing to me.
Then he added, “She also knew your Uncle Mike.”
“Why would Mom spend every Saturday with your mother?”
That name did.
And suddenly, the room felt too small.
***
Six months earlier, I hadn’t even known Connor existed.
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