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The Last Flight Chapter 9
Date: 9/18/2017, Categories: Lesbian, Author: Annamagique, Rating: 11, Source: LushStories
fist to strike my mother but then saw me watching him. He didn't touch her but picked up another beer and drank it straight from the bottle. It was gone in seconds. When last we heard he was posted to North Africa with the Eighth Army. I never saw him again. When my mother received the telegram informing her he was missing, all I felt was a deep sense of relief. I hoped he was dead. Not out of anger but because he would at last be free of whatever had tormented him all these years. “Karen?” Jemima's voice sounded far away and I took a deep breath. “Oh, sorry, I was just remembering some things.” “Your father?” she asked and I nodded. “What about your mother? What happened to her?” “Well, after my father was gone she never really changed much, never was one for making friends so she and I just went on as we always had. She was killed by a V2 rocket that fell whilst she was shopping, in November, nineteen-forty-four, died instantly.” “I remember that! It was Woolworth's in New Cross wasn't it?” Jemima frowned as if trying to remember. “That's right.” I replied. “It was a Saturday, about lunch time. I was working that day and she had gone to buy some groceries. Hundreds of people were killed. The only blessing is she could have known nothing about it.” “So how did you get to know?” she asked. I didn't really want to remember any more. It had been a traumatic time. “Maybe some day I will tell you more,” I told her, “but I think we have learned enough about each other for today, ...