Epilogue
Jack set down his phone and looked across the patio table at Kate. Despite the losses she’d suffered over the last few weeks, she now appeared almost serene, as though she was ready to put the past behind her and look forward to the future.
To a future with him.
“That was Luz,” he said.
“Oh?” After all the necessary cover-up of her father’s true cause of death, after the dust had settled and the dead had been buried, Kate made the decision that she couldn’t live in Scottsdale anymore. Too many terrible memories, too much to remind her of what she’d lost. Her parents’ house had been put on the market, and Lynda had moved up to Clarkdale to be near her new grandson. The shock and sorrow would always be with her, but at least she could try to focus on the newest member of the fam
