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I stepped from behind the post and walked over to the two of theered aroundhair and deep blue eyes

"Richard, this is h"

Richard eyed me up and down in a way that made me feel less like a person He studied me as if I was a porcelain doll he wanted to watch shatter I tried not to show h as round "How do you do, Liz?"

"Elizabeth," I corrected,down at "Only people I know call me Liz"

"Liz, that is no way to speak to hi in her forehead She would’ve had a fit if she’d known her wrinkles were showing I hated hohenever a new man ca up for ht It takes tiiven out freely" There was so so sliar I earing a pair of loose jeans and a plain, oversized T-shirt, but his eyes rab a bite to eat in town, if you want to join us," he offered

I declined "Elanced back at the house whereon the pullout sofa she and I’d been sharing for one too hts since we’d moved back in with Mama

Mama wasn’t the only one who’d lost the love of her life

Hopefully I wouldn’t end up like her

Hopefully I’d just stay in the sad phase

It’d been a year since Steven passed away, and still each breath was hard to s Emma’s and my true home was back in Meadows Creek, Wisconsin It was a fixer-upper place where Steven, Emma, and I had taken a house and created a hohts, and back in love, over and over again

It beca within its walls, and after Steven passed away, a drift of coldness filled the space

The last tiether, his hand was around ht would last forever

Forever was much shorter than anyone would ever like to believe

For the longest time, life flowed in its accusto stop