Epilogue
TWELVE MONTHS LATER
Lucian
I sawed a piece of wood in half and added it to my pile in the backyard. Once again, I was working on building a deck for my beautiful wife. I was using the same design from her old house. She’d loved that one a lot, and I wanted to make our new home feel like one for her just as much as myself. So far, progress seemed to be going well.
In nine months, I’d been able to build the actual house. We’d made sure the blueprints included five bedrooms. One for us, at least three future children, and a guest room. There was also space on the land to create a guesthouse on the property, and that was next on my list once I finished landscaping the yard around the main house.
Katerina’s dad wasn’t well, and we had decided, after talking to Sarah and Nadia as w
