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Wyatt places a five-dollar bill on the counter at the clown toss, and I stand back to watch him win a prize for his niece

Soot so lucky after everything

Other days, I re to do with it

We fought for each other

And love alins

Epilogue

Three Years Later

Renata

I wipe a slew of happy tears from my eyes as baby Jack shoves a handful of his first birthday cake into hishazel eyes wider than saucers at that first taste of pure sugar Wyatt laughs as his beautiful wife kneels down next to the baby’s high chair and ends up with a fist full of frosting in her hair

These are the moments I live for—the priceless slivers of time that make up the complicated, multi-colored tapestry that is life It isn’t always rainbows and roses, but it isn’t always heartache and gray skies either

McCoy and Daisy run through the kitchen, weaving through aunts and uncles and friends and faifted Wyatt and Blaire soether They’d been apart for so long, I figured they’d be anxious to pick up where they left off

I wasn’t wrong A mother rarely is …

They were engaged in an instant, round on their beautiful far the first birthday of their first child

I head to the island to grab a stack of paper party plates and a cake knife

“You doing okay?” I ask Oliver when I find him in the corner, isolated, and away fro from afar today, and I’m not sure if he’s said more than a handful of words

The ht four years back Alhter’s blind trust, and rumor has it he parted with most of his wealth as well It turns out he was involved in soot hi circles I don’t pretend to know all the facts or details I only knohat people talk about in town, and I take it all with a grain of salt because everyone likes to talk like they know so old Victorian house for sale and moved to a two-bedroom on the outskirts of a town fifteen miles east of here Odette remarried to some businessman in Cheyenne I doubt she’s ever looked back, but of course that’s pure speculation