CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
What the coffee had failed to do in terms of perking Kate up, holding her granddaughter for the first time had accomplished. Aside from her own child—Melissa, now twenty-six and very much her own woman—Kate had never been a “baby person.” In fact, the idea of being around them scared her a bit.
But holding Michelle had seemed to open something within her while also closing a beautiful circle that had opened up when she’d given birth to Melissa twenty-six years ago. It was like seeing a ghost and welcoming it into her arms. She knew this was not Melissa in her arms but the feeling of it was the same. She had not expected such an emotional reaction from holding her first grandchild but in that moment, everything within Kate softened and gave itself over to the child.
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