Too Late For Me

Reyona only smiled.

“I am sorry, I am rambling. The problem now is that Thomas has not been found yet. Mary told me you made arrangements for the bodies at the morgue until he could be found. The police have found nothing about him, and I don’t know what to do with the kids.”

Reyona wondered how that was her problem.

Then she said, “I am sure Thomas would be back from wherever he went soon, and he would take them off your hands.”

“But we don’t know when that would be, do we?” Fiona said anxiously. More to herself, she muttered, “I don’t know how a son could be so unfilial! His mother and daughter died on the same day, and he had to choose a time like this to leave home. My aunt would be crying in the afterlife right now.”

Reyona was beginning to think of all the things she could be doing with her time at that moment instead of sitting to hear a tale she already knew about.