The lake was flat when I woke up, the kind of morning that made you think the whole day would behave itself. It didn’t.
Sophie found me on the porch with coffee, flipping through her wedding binder like it might attack her.
“Mom and Dad are leaving,” she said, dropping into the chair next to me.
“What?” I sat up. “I thought they were staying the whole month.”
“Dad’s got a work emergency in Seattle. Mom’s going with him.” She sighed. “They’ll be back for the wedding, but for now it’s just us and Noah.”
That explained why Noah looked relieved and why Sophie looked like she’d been handed extra weight.
“What about Jackson?” I asked. Liam’s friend who left unexpected two days ago.
“Jackson got called back to Portland,” Sophie said. “His crew had a site issue. Didn’t even say
