“What about that beach property, where you first lived?”
“Oh, I kept that too. Anything that Rico and I shared, I kept. I built a house there. It's leased as a B&B.”
As Ciara quietly flipped through pages of the album, her expression showed will and determination to carry on.
Her strength was just like she had noticed in Pablo a couple of months earlier. He, too, expressed a lot of determination as he spoke of his dearly departed wife and the future he hoped for his son. The way Ciara described her husband's strength, Pablo must have inherited a backbone from Rico then emulated Ciara's courage.
Ciara flipped back to a section showing her husband. One enlarged photo covered the page. It was of Ciara as she sat on a sleek wooden chair in front of two tall bookcases with an old picture of
