Chapter 16Ben
I’d never felt that “end of an era” feeling as clearly as I did when we started the drive back to Twin Star.
With all the possessions I wanted to keep, little as there was, in the trailer and River by my side, I felt like we were traveling towards our forever.
Maybe we wouldn’t live at the rescue, in that little cabin, forever, but I could definitely see us being together forever. I wasn’t sure how likely that was, just look at statistics and all that, but right then, I couldn’t see us being apart, either.
A couple of hours into the journey back, River’s cell phone rang.
“Oh, it’s my sister,” River said, surprise in his voice. “Hey, Laura. What’s up?”
I knew they didn’t communicate much in River’s family. He’d told me it could sometimes take months between calls, and ev
