CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
(part two)
Leaving Trevor and his bride on the floor of the church vestibule, Sam, Aden and Sandy jogged down the Cathedral steps.
Tiffanie stood at the door and waved good-bye.
The music started inside the church as they walked up Colfax to the parking lot. Sam opened the limo door
for Sandy. Aden scooted in behind her. Sam bent to speak to them.
“I’m going to walk a little bit,” Sam said.
“Are you all right?” Aden asked. He moved to get out of the limousine. “We can walk with you.”
“I feel….” Sam’s eyes welled with tears. “My Celia is right here with me. I have my wife… my life… back…. I can’t explain it. I… I’d like to walk with Celia for a while. Don’t worry. I’m fine. Jacob wakes up at four o’clock?”
“Four o’clock. Right.”
“I’ll be there,” Sam said. He laughed. “There is something you could do for me.”
“Anything,” Aden said.
Sam gave Aden the divorce papers. Pulling an ornate wedding ring off his left hand, he smiled then handed it to Aden. He took off his bow tie and unbuttoned his shirt. Pulling out a long gold chain, he jerked a worn silver band from the chain. He gave Aden the broken chain and slipped the ring on his left ring finger. Sam’s face broke into a huge smile. He walked off toward Sixteenth Street. Sam waved to them as they drove by.
“Wow,” Sandy said. “What are you going to do with that?”
Aden rolled down the window and threw the ornate wedding band out the window. Sandy watched it bounce along the payment until it dropped through a sewer drain.
“Where to?” The limo driver asked.
“My house?” Sandy asked.
“Oh yes.”
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“We need to make sure we’re there when Jacob wakes up,” Delphie said to Valerie.
“What’s the big deal?” Valerie asked. “He’s been in an out of medication for the last week.”
“Medication blocks a psychics ability. I know it sounds weird but for a true psychic, your ability to intuit is like a third leg. When your intuition is clogged, you don’t remember the most basic things. It’s like being brain damaged.”
“Like your hysterectomy?” Valerie asked. ”I’ll call the hospital.”
Valerie dialed Denver Health on her cell phone. She waited on hold for Jacob’s nurse.
“My hysterectomy? That was not good,” Delphie said.
“You couldn’t remember your name,” Valerie said. “You kept asking me how I grew up so fast. You thought I 
was twelve. It was hilarious.”
“Yes, it was,” Delphie said. “All of that medication is going to catch up to Jacob. You know how intense your brother can be.”
Valerie held up a finger. Talking back and forth, she thanked the nurse then hung up the phone.
“He’s awake and with the doctor now. The nurse said he will be released at four o’clock. Something about medication half life… something.”
“We better be there.”
Valerie nodded.
Denver Cereal continues tomorrow….
