The cabin had changed significantly. We’d added on, expanding it to include a proper office for Elias, a workshop for Ennis, and a study for me. The dock had been rebuilt, stronger and wider. There was a garden now, vegetables and flowers growing in neat rows.
I stood on the porch, watching the sun set over the lake, and felt a sense of profound contentment.
This was my actual life. After all the time away from Elias, not sure if I’d ever get to see him again… and then he appears in my life again and then his brother…
I was so content.
I’d finished my degree two years ago and now ran a small practice out of the cabin, seeing clients remotely. People who'd been through trauma, who needed someone who understood. I was good at it. It fulfilled me in a way nothing else ever had.
I had met
