Epilogue

Sara smiled as she looked outside her kitchen window. “Look at this grasshopper,” Harrison was saying with all the seriousness of a true insect collector, “It’s huge.”

She watched as James narrowed his eyes. “I’ve seen bigger,” he said in confident tones.

Harrison seemed nonplussed, but with a devious smile, he placed the grasshopper on James’s shoulder. James squealed, especially when the grasshopper hopped into his hair. This resulted in Harrison plucking the offending bug from James’s hair, but not before both had collapsed to the grass in laughter.

It was the beginning of summer, and with that came three months off for Sara and James. It also meant that Harrison was at their house as often as his schedule permitted. He’d hinted to her about moving in with him, but she didn’t want to uproot James after they’d just moved to this house, not to mention that she had Ruth to consider as well.

“They look good together,” Ruth commented as she came to stand by the window. “You’d think h