Epilogue
Thea hid her face in her folded arms on the counter while Jamie expounded on what she had seen in the woods.
“They was! Really!” the girl exclaimed. “Stuck. I mean. I’ve seen the goats and chickens do it, although with chickens it looks more like fighting to me, but they was stuck together!”
“They were stuck,” Grace said.
Thea could tell Grace was desperately trying not to laugh.
“I know!” Jamie retorted.
Nick lost his own battle with decorum and laughed out loud. It was Jamie using her hands to demonstrate that pushed him over the edge.
Thea glared at him. He held Lily up to his shoulder. Thea wondered if Grace noticed that Nick was using their daughter as a human shield.
“No, I mean, it is ‘were’ not ‘was’,” Grace said. “You are doing so well with your grammar, don’t sli
