A wealth of expressions swept across her face—shock, disbelief, anger, uncertainty, acceptance, fear. But one he hadn’t expected to see—relief and even, dare he think it, happiness—made him take in a stunned breath. He clung to those last two expressions as she stiffly approached. “I told you no...
You stay there, Uncle Dalton. Don’t come inside,” Rebecca warned, closing the door behind her and dramatically spreading her arms to bar his entrance into the closed dining room. After concluding his work early he had walked to the dining room that Rebecca just exited. A r...
