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One of the best ly mundane ht a DIY kitchen island, with two drawers in the middle and shelves on one end It had needed soht project

Jacqui re out all the pieces and instructions in the ht out two glasses of wine and they’d sat in the ether They’d laughed when he’d installed one of the drawers upside down, and then when she’d done the sa with the shelves

What stood out to Jacqui, even all these years later, was that her parents worked together They were partners; they relied on each other

That kind of relationship hat she’d alanted, and Jacqui knew that this trip would show that she had that kind of relationship with Khizar, even if they still had details to work out

When they got to the airport, the pilot aiting with the jet ready to go According to the coordinates etched on the fake diaht The pilot had filed a flight plan to get theed to rent a car from there

They looked over a reen with his index finger

“The coordinates put us here, in the Talladega National Forest Looks like it’s a forty-minute drive from the airport”

Jacqui nodded “We’ll want to stop and get a good GPS from an outdoors store”

“Good idea”

Jacqui had been planning to bring up a discussion of what their ht look like, but before she knew it, the plane was descending and they were in Alabaht back, and plenty of time after they found whatever William Bauer had left for her

Khizar picked up the four-wheel drive SUV from the rental counter, and they stopped at the first outdoors shop they saw to buy a handheld GPS to help theot into the forest

It was a gorgeous drive, winding through hills and wooded areas They stopped at a scenic overlook to get their bearings, and then drove to a parking lot at a trailhead

The parking lot only had one other car parked there Jacqui wasn’t all that surprised they were almost the only people in that location; it was a weekday , and not su around, but it was mostly quiet on the road