NICK STOPPED AT THE edge of the family room in his parent’s home and marvelled at the scene in front of him. Kara and Andrew, Alex and Emily were seated on matching white leather couches across from each other with a scrabble board on the coffee table between them. The three Wentworth family members as he now thought of them, were having a heated argument over the legitimacy of a word their grandfather had chosen. A heavily decorated Christmas tree in greens and reds stood in the bay window behind the group. Another wall of windows looked out onto the pool area and a wall of green palm trees swayed behind the pool. All evidence of the gifts that had been opened earlier that morning were cleared away
Nick, Kara and Andrew had gotten to know each other the past few months. The information t
