Chapter 11

Two weeks after Rhys checked the recordings, a letter arrived at the store.The return address was a town west of Greybridge. I recognized Sloane's handwriting before I opened it.She wrote that she and Milo had left the Calder estate and were staying with her sister. Rhys had paid for the move, but she was looking for work outside the Security Division. She had told Milo that they were leaving because she could no longer work for Rhys. She had not told him that any of it was Jamie's fault.The rest of the letter was an apology.Sloane admitted that she had grabbed my mother's jewelry case and let herself fall when she heard Rhys approaching. She also knew Milo had taken Jamie's toy, though she had allowed Rhys to believe otherwise. She had been afraid of losing the protection Rhys gave her, she wrote. That fear did not excuse what she had done.At the bottom of the page, she added that Milo had asked whether he could send Jamie a new wolf. She had told him it was not theirs to replace

Chapter 12

By winter, Ruth no longer worried that I might close the store.We had repaired the front window, filled the shelves, and made room for a small reading table. Children came in after school to look at books while their parents shopped. Some days were busy. Some were not. I knew how to plan for both.On Thursday mornings, Ruth read stories to the youngest children while their parents bought groceries. I took over the register on those days. She had spent years keeping the store open by herself; now she could sit down and enjoy the part of the work she loved most.The café in my mother's second property renewed its lease. That income helped keep the store running without turning every quiet afternoon into a crisis.It was not the life I had imagined when I first arrived in Seabrook. I liked it more than I expected.Jamie settled in too. He learned the names of the boats in the harbor and made a friend who lived three doors down. His repaired wolf sat on the shelf above his bed, its crooke

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