Caldwell looked at Aurora's slightly confused expression, gently picked up the necklace, and put it around Aurora’s neck. The meaning of the beans was, of course, not lost on Aurora. After all, it was she who had first sent a package of beans to him. They were the outward expression of their love for each other.
"Do you like it?" Caldwell wondered.
Aurora nodded. "Yes. I like it. Thank you."
After lunch, Aurora's cell phone rang. She looked at the caller ID, saw that it was Jonathan, and frowned. The man was a scoundrel. Without a second thought, he had cast her mother into a madhouse, and Harlyn suspected that her car accident was the work of a saboteur. Even now that she had rescued her mother, she remained sick and weak, and that was his faul
