THOMI ATE LITTLE AT lunchtime and yielded to Stephan’s hint they leave the beach. Wearier than she would admit, she immediately dozed off almost as soon as her head rested against the seat back. Woke up when she realized the car had stopped. Hadn’t seemed they’d been that long in motion.
“Where are we?” she wondered, then her eyes focused sharply, and she sat up.
They were just half a mile down the road from DreamWynd. He had turned left between twin brick gate columns that flanked a newly blacktopped driveway. To the right of the drive stood a stately house of red-orange brick, its grounds, unkempt the last time she’d driven by, now groomed to paradisiacal beauty. New shrubs, bushes, and flowerbeds, some still in the process of being planted, added colorful life to the place.
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