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Rachel led the sun blazed across the valley, turning the air into liquid gold

“It’s so pretty” Julia sighed

“The view is part of the reason why I married Mac,” Rachel joked

“She loves e”

“Let’s have a story, Dad” A from when you were a kid”

“You’ve heard all rill

“Mom?”

“Don’t look at me, all my stories are the same as your Dad’s” Rachel set down chips and salsa and Arabbed a chip for Ben and no one said anything

Jesse could feel Rachel’s eyes on him, like a motherly hand across his forehead So he kept his own eyes focused on his plate

I’h

But he knew if ever there was a e the chase of forgiving his sister, a breath away froht

He looked at Julia, trying to gather soht at him, as if she could read his mind

Go on, she seeo

“I have a story,” he said A pin dropping would have created a cacophony it was so quiet on the deck Rachel’s hand stalled on the way to a chip This was his olive branch and they all seeht, which would have made Mac and Rachel about fifteen”

“Oh, this should be good,” Aether

“Mac found a wallet with five hundred dollars in it in the rock quarry” Jesse studied his hands, the cut on his thuh him

“I thought I found it,” Rachel looked perplexed “Didn’t I find it?”

“Nope” Mac shook his head

“Mac toldfor a skeleton down there for about three years,” Jesse told Amanda