Elena looked at the out-of-shape bracelet and felt even more furious. She couldn’t calm down anymore, for it was the only thing that her mother gave her.
Elena walked into the house desperately, and bumped into Logan who came out to see her.
Logan supported her, “Watch your step! Be careful. Or you will get hurt!”
Elena showed him the bracelet. He gave a glance at it. “Don’t worry. I will ask someone to fix it. It will be the same as it was before.”
“Really!?” She cheered up again.
Logan smiled, “I never lie to you.”
Elena was happy again. She couldn’t help embracing him and giving him a kiss on his cheek as a reward, “Logan, thank you so much!”
He looked at her with great affection, patting her head slightly.
Jacob did really well in his job, for he could always handle things in such a short time. Now he came back with the news about the location of Joanna’s graveyard. However, Elena still couldn’t accept the fact that her mother was dead. She felt anxious and afraid when she got the news.
But Logan didn’t want her to escape from the fact. He wanted her to face it bravely. So he held her hand even closer, in case that she would run away, “Elena. You have to face it soon or later.”
She wanted to say something but at last she chose to be silent.
He comforted her, “Let’s visit her together. I’ve never visited her since we got married.”
His words successfully comforted Elena. She took a deep breath, turned to look at him and nodded, “Okay.”
*****
Joanna’s graveyard was in the outskirts of the city. When they arrived, it was dark. Elena pushed Logan’s wheelchair, walking after Jacob. Soon after, she saw a tombstone with a picture on it. It was her mother, who looked so alike to her.
“She...” She was her mother?
Elena stood in front of the tombstone, touching the photo gently and carefully. It was wonderful that when she saw her mother, she felt so close to her. She couldn’t help smiling.
Jacob walked away silently, in order to give them privacy to talk to her mother.
“Mother, I’m so sorry that I am so late to see you.” Logan said in a low voice, squeezing her hand.
Elena looked at the man, surprised, “Mother? That is my mother!”
Before Elena could accept it, he called her mother first.
Logan raised his eyebrows, “We get married. And she is my mother now.”
She realized that he was right.
Elena bowed to the tombstone in a polite way to show her respect, “I am sorry that I didn’t know you before. From now on, I will always come here to see you, alright?”
She wanted to tell her mother that she lived a happy life. She loved her husband and he loved her as well.
Joanna kept smiling on the photo. Seemingly she was smiling to them. After a while, they decided to leave. And they left a bunch of flowers beside the tombstone.
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