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Now he had a pretty good idea where she was

It was so like Georgia not to mention it He hoped she wouldn’t reject his coh it wasn’t far to the ceates were still open and he parked in the empty visitors’ lot Gravel crunched beneath his boots as he started on the first path

This was one of the few places in Sundance where deciduous trees grew Weeping hich were appropriate, he supposed Soft breezes stirred the branches Dappled sunlight threw shadows on the rounds and across the headstones

Tell avoided the ceeneral rule The McKays had their own section in the far corner, in the oldest part, since his great-great-grandfather Jonas McKay had been one of the first settlers in Wyo was he’d only been in this cerandfather Jed McKay’s burial and when they buried Luke He re ho McKays were buried there, and feeling sadness at howMcKays

He’d never understood why hisflowers and tears—because Luke wasn’t here Were visits solely a reminder of the finality of death? Or soet the loved one they’d lost?

Trying to keep his hts at bay, he scanned the neatly ordered sections of grave markers, some elaborate, so eleer visible

Then he saw her, five rows over, sitting cross-legged, her back to hiht

Part of him wanted to leave, to let her have the private moment, just relieved he knehere she was

But a bigger part of hiive her whatever she needed, whenever she needed it

And that’s when Tell knew that he was in love with her Not the beautiful girl from his past he’d put on a pedestal But the beautiful, complex woman she’d become, even when she swore she wasn’t sure who that woman was The woman he’d cherish every da his love while she wept at her brother’s grave could possibly be the worst tilanced up when Tell’s shadow fell across her She wiped her tears and ed a wan smile “I don’t knohy I’m surprised you founddistance if she was so inclined to reach out for hiood one Or a pretty bad one, depending”

“Bad,alone crying” She sniffled “Mostly they just leave you be”

“Do you want o?”

She shook her head

He watched her, not shocked by her grief, but by the fact that she wasn’t chasing hiood times

“I haven’t been here since a year after his accident” Her fingers plucked pieces of grass, turning the blades into green confetti “I don’t knohat I expected to be different Maybe if I started talking to hihost would appear But to be honest, I’d probably wetif that did happen”

He had no idea what to say to that, so he said nothing

“I rass Tears streamed down her cheeks Her chin trembled

He felt so da through He dealt with the anniversary of Luke’s death differently, surrounding hiers usually—so he had no choice but to slap on a happy face and not dwell on the loss

Several long moments passed Then she blindly reached out to him “I…”