CHAPTER 59Late the next morning, Mara’s Outback pulled up to the curb in front of the house, or rather, in front of the lot where it used to be. Now there was just a pile of wet blackened debris standing on top of a concrete foundation. All that remained were the front steps leading up to a platform that used to be the front porch and, oddly, the frame of the front door, though the door itself and the front wall of the house were gone. It stood like a portal, mocking them to enter the devastation that used to be the only home Mara ever knew.
Shifting the car into Park, Mara glanced over to the passenger seat at her mother and asked, “Are you sure you’re up to doing this?”
Diana nodded and smiled. “It’s just a house, Mara. Once we get the insurance squared away, we’ll build another one ju
