Out in the lobby, he took a moment to collect himself. What next? Police station, to make sure the coach wasn’t weaseling out of anything? Back to the lodge? He was still all wound up and he didn’t want to go home. Even though the lodge was huge and his entire family was there, it was going to feel bitterly empty without Serena.
Damn, Serena had cut him to the core with that little comment about being in the wrong timeline. He knew it wasn’t directed at him, but still—what chance did they have if she felt she ought to be back in her old life? Her old life didn’t have room for him. He was never going to live in a city like that. What would he do there? Even though he didn’t know exactly what his future held, he knew that it had something to do with the lodge, and working with kids, using h
