"TXT - Nora Roberts - Dream 02 - Holding The Dream" - читать интересную книгу автора (Roberts Nora)

A man with big plans, she thought now. A man who had spun those plans
out into delightful fantasies for his child. Visions of big houses, fine
cars, fun-filled trips to Disney World.

And all the while they lived in a tiny house just like all the other
tiny houses on the block, with an old sedan that rattled, and no trips
to anywhere.

So he stole, and he was caught. And he died.

What had her mother done? Kate wondered. What had she felt? Was that why
Kate remembered her most as a woman with worry in her eyes and a tight
smile?

Had he stolen before? The idea made her cold inside. Had he stolen
before and somehow gotten away with it? A little here, a little there,
until he'd become careless?

She remembered arguments, often over money. And worse, the silences that
followed them. The silence that night. That heavy, hurting silence in
the car between her parents before the awful spin, the screams and the
pain.

Shuddering, she closed her eyes, clenched her fists tight, and fought
back the drumming headache.

Oh, God, she had loved them. Loved the memory of them. Couldn't bear to
have it smeared and spoiled. And couldn't face, she realized with horrid
shame, being the daughter of a cheat.

She wouldn't believe it. Not yet. She took slow breaths and turned to
her computer. With mechanical efficiency she accessed the library in New
Hampshire where she'd been born and had lived for the first eight years
of her life.

It was tedious work, but she ordered copies of newspapers for the year
before the accident, requested faxes of any article mentioning Lincoln
Powell. While she waited, she contacted the lawyer back east who had
handled the disposition of her parents' estate.

She was a creature comfortable with technology. Within an hour she had
everything she needed. She could read the details in black and white,
details that confirmed the facts the lawyer had given her.

The accusations, the criminal charges, the scandal. A scandal, she
realized, that had earned print space because of Lincoln Powell's family
connection to the Templetons. And the missing funds, replaced in full
after her parents were buried. Replaced, Kate was certain, by the people
who had raised her as one of their own.