Jack didn’t give Luz a lot of details over the phone, only told her that he needed to talk to her as soon as possible. Sounding somewhat mystified, she said that she had a lunch date downtown with her husband David, but she could see him late that morning.
He’d been to the house before, of course, the gracious hacienda-style home that had belonged to the former prima and had come to Luz when she assumed the title and responsibility of guiding their clan. Even though Luz and David had now lived here for several years, it still felt somewhat jarring to Jack to know that Maya wouldn’t be there to greet him when he arrived. She had been such a fixture in his life — and the lives of all their clan members — for longer than he could remember, that sometimes he still forgot that she was now gone
