The Wife He Never Loved
Epilogue I
In the sprawling garden behind the big house by the sea, a war council was in session.
It was being held beneath the dining room table.
“Listen up,” said the eldest, and everyone listened up, because she was the leader and she had an eye patch, which made it official.
The eye patch was made of construction paper and one of her mother’s hair elastics, and it kept sliding up onto her forehead, but she pushed it back down with the gravity of a true captain.