was. Now, all of a sudden he is back and telling me that he never left. He obviously just enjoyed watching me suffer.”
“Drew,” Brendan said calmly, “ it is not the truth. I did not think that I could come back to you in this form. If I could not be with you, the way that you deserve, I thought it best to let you get on with your life, the way that it was before you ever met me.”
Liza seeing that Drew had made it home safely and knowing that the two of them needed time on their own to make their love work and to break the spell that had too long ago been placed on them both, quietly snuck out of the door smiling.
“Brendan,” Drew said, running her fingers through her helmet tussled hair and pacing the floor, “my life was so… different, I guess is the right word, before you “poofed” your way into it. I had a job that I hated, I had no place to live, I had a past that I couldn’t stomach, and the only person that I had in the world that I could depend on was Liza. You have given me so much. I know that it is crazy.” She walked to him then and took his hands in hers. When she looked in his eyes she saw confusion. She wished that she could remove Lazetta from his heart and his memory forever.
“What in either one of our lives is normal though? Nothing makes any since. It doesn’t matter though because while you were pretending to be off in the unknown somewhere, I was learning that as much as things didn’t make sense, it made more sense having you in my life than my life ever made sense before. Does that make sense?”
Brendan laughed. Drew was obviously at a loss for words but he caught her meaning in her eyes. She loved him and that made all of the sense in the world.
He pulled her toward him and placed her arms around his strong neck then picked her up and carried her to her bedroom.
“Miss Drew, I want to help you put your past behind you. I want to show you that there is more to life than to be afraid all of your waking days. I want to show you that there is more to making love than just wickedness that men desire. That isif you’ll have me. I promise I will never hurt you again.”
Drew doubted that last part. She knew that he would hurt her again, one day when she needed his confirmation on his love for her. He would tell her that his heart is with Lazetta and not with her. She didn’t care now. She wanted him, and it was time to let everything else go.
She was just about to tell him so when there was a knock on the door. Before Drew could get to it though, Liza opened it and poked her head in.
“I’m so sorry. I know I should probably just let you two be alone but…”
Liza knew it was time to talk. She had to get out the truth so that they could live their lives happily with each other. So that Brendan could have his second chance of life and Drew could finally come to terms with her life.
“Drew, there is a history in my family that I never mentioned before to you because I wasn’t really a part of it before and because I thought you wouldn’t be my friend anymore. On the same day that you got an eviction notice, I received a phone call from my mother who had received a phone call from her mother.” She said facing her.
“My Nana has told me the story of the O’Keefe’s and of my great-greatgreat grandparents, Lezetta O’Keefe and Brendan O’Keefe.” She looked up at Brendan then with an apologetic smile. “You see, Brendan and Lezetta were my great-greatgreat grandparents.”
“That is not possible!” Brendan yelled. “Lezetta and I never made love, and we were never married. We were engaged to be married this is true, but she wanted to wait until our wedding night which never came. It is not possible that you could be who you say!”
Drew was up pacing now. It seemed that everything in her life had lead up to this moment, to this house and these people. Something told her thatit wasn’t coincidence.
Liza looked back at Drew now. “I’m only telling you this because that