“You’ve my word I won’t pursue anything, you’re brats are welcome to the little freak.” Jeannie passed her the cheque, shook her hand and left, knowing she had a lot of explaining to do to Charles with regards to their whole life savings and their pension, but it was worth it and she felt an enormous sense of satisfaction.
Felicity sat there wide eyed staring at the cheque, she was pleased with the amount and happy knowing she wouldn’t have to pursue Benjamin any further, she didn’t want him it was only the money she was interested in, she ordered another double vodka quietly congratulating herself on her new found wealth, what would she do with it all? Grabbing the envelope, making sure all its contents were neatly stacked together, she made her way to her black Audi sports car, she could have called a cab remembering all the vodka she had just consumed, but she felt too excited and wanted to get back to the hotel as quickly as possible to place a call to the Madame informing her of her new windfall of money. Felicity excitedly put her foot down fully on the accelerator exceeding the speed limit of seventy on the dual carriage way to over a hundred and twenty, she wasn’t aware she was on the wrong side of the dual carriage way, forgetting she wasn’t at home in the states where they drove on the other side of the road, but she was too late she didn’t even have time to hit her foot on the brake pedal as she collided head on with an huge tanker carrying petrol, both vehicles erupted in giant flames. It took the emergency services a little over twenty minutes to get to the collision and over half an hour to distinguish the roaring flames. Unfortunately the drivers of both vehicles were pronounced dead at the scene and would need to be identified by their dental records, due to both corpses been incinerated beyond recognition.
Epilogue Benjamin collected his belongings into two large trunks; he was surprised at how much he had accumulated in his years in Pinderfields, he wouldn’t miss his bedroom too much as Chase had shown his new giant size bedroom in his new home, it was kitted out in his favorite Liverpool United wall paper, with matching curtains and bedcovers with large poster of Steven Gerard his favorite football player. He was so happy his brother and sisters were going to look after him, he missed his father dearly but found a great friend and loyal brother in Chase, he hoped they could all stay together forever like a proper family he had read about and seen on television and he adored Chase’s new wife Zhaohui, she was so kind and bestowed so much time and affection on him, he felt so lucky. He met his new nephews and adorable little niece Broody, Carter and Anna; they were awesome, the boys showed him their new tricks for him to learn in football and currently taught him how to do the breath stroke in swimming in their giant indoor swimming pool. Benjamin found it funny at first as he thought this was how frogs swim. For the first time in his life he felt like he belonged somewhere with people who adored him, it was the most happiest time of his life, he never wanted it to end, the only thing he wasn’t too keen on was returning back to Pinderfields three times a week to continue with his education, but he wasn’t too cross as he liked the teachers there and made some good friends he liked to play with.
Ella, Destiny, and Chase were all delighted that they were granted full custody of Benjamin encountering no legal problems to prevent them, as soon as they heard the news of Felicity’s death, they were relieved that she would never fight for custody, however they all knew one day Benjamin would have questions regarding his mother and they all agreed they would tread carefully not to upset him anymore, his life had just began with them and they all vowed they would make his life as wonderful and as ordinary as they possibly could, as they all each loved him un conditionally.
Chase doted on Benjamin the most as he was to permanently stay with Chase and Zhaohui, they did everything together, movies pizza, fishing, camping at the lakes, mountain climbing and cycling. Chase started to teach Benjamin all he knew about motorcycles, and he absorbed everything new like a sponge always willing to learn more. Chase never grew tired of all his questions and tried to answer them the best he could.
Ella and Destiny couldn’t get enough of the ir new brother often fighting to take him out or have him over for the weekend and much to their surprise their mother Jeannie also wanted to spend time with Benjamin making plans for him to stay and come over for dinner in the week and weekends. Jeannie embraced Benjamin into her family with open arms treating him the same as Ella, Destiny, and Chase as though he was her own son, nobody questioned this or even thought it strange.
Benjamin loved Jeannie and saw her as the mother he never had, she was funny, beautiful and kind, always teaching him to bake some weird and wonderful concoction. Charles would often join them and enjoyed their small food fights more than often been the victim and wearing the most food.
Jeannie never told anyone about her meeting with Felicity and never had to explain to Charles the ten million pounds she offered Felicity as she had died before she could bank it, it was her secret that she would take to the grave in honor of her ex husband, although she wasn’t sad by the news of Felicity’s death, she still couldn’t imagine a more horrible way for a person to die.
Frank Chapman form Strut & Brothers who sold Ella Harwood House invited Ella out on a number of dates, introducing Destiny to his artist brother Joseph Chapman, the girls finally found love with the brothers, it was arranged for both Ella and Destiny to have a double wedding in June the following year, the Chapman brothers were smitten and couldn’t wait to make them their wife’s, they both fell in love with every member of the Pearson family perhaps favoring Benjamin a little more than they should, but they couldn’t resist his charms, he was simply irresistible.
Destiny and Joseph purchased a beautiful large house only twenty minutes away from Ella’s and Chase’s houses with a large discount as Frank had arranged it for them.
Mr and Mrs Walsh moved into the spacious four bed roomed cottage on Ella’s land. Mr Walsh enjoyed his retirement often doing odd jobs around Ella’s house, making small repairs; Mrs Walsh couldn’t be happier helping out with the boys and Anna, now that the family had extended with Benjamin and Dylan. Mrs Walsh befriended Mrs Myers and often visited her in her new assisted home where she looked after Mr Myers often cooking the greatest casseroles on earth.
Ella confessed all to Mrs Myers and Mrs Myers embraced her new grandchild Anna with love and curiosity, she had the same eyes of her dead son James and was the complete double of him, and she was over the moon, little Anna gave her a new lease of life, and so much hope and much joy. Dylan her oldest grandchild was only too happy spending all his free time and weekends at Ella’s with the boys and his new sister he adored.
Ella made sure that Mr and Mrs Myers accepted their new modern four bedroom home as a gift from her and the boys, with twenty four hour help for Mr Myers, freeing up more time for Mrs Myers to spend with Dylan and Anna.
Zhaohui cast all her doubts aside about her Chinese descent, she felt stupid for worrying that she wouldn’t be accepted into the family now as they all warmly embraced her with no such questions, she loved them all equally with the exception of Benjamin who she loved a little more, she felt privileged to be a part of this wonderful large strong loving family.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catherine Rose Putsche is a British author and a native speaker who teaches English as a second language to young and adult learners in Austria. Originally from the North of England where she graduated in software engineering and had a successful career as a systems administrator before discovering her many other talents.
Her books include, Addicted to Greed & A Saved Soul. Her latest book The Surgeon´s Son released in March 2014 is now available worldwide. She is currently writing her fifth book which is a sequel to The Surgeon´s Son as it was very successful and features the same detective team.
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