Chapter 1032:

She didn’t want to mention her again. Not now. Not when things were already tense. So, she changed the subject, searching for anything else to say.

“Norton, before you go—there’s something else.”

Norton had started to leave, but the sound of her voice made him stop. “What is it?”

“I’ve been trying some new recipes. Would you like to taste a few?” she spoke softly, her eyes shining with gentle hope. She gave him a look that was half shy, half inviting.

“I don’t have time.” His answer was flat and quick.

Her heart sank, but she gave it one more try. “Maybe I could bring them by sometime?”

Yvonne’s cooking before, thinking that would

were clipped,

mind,” she said with a weak smile. The disappointment was evident despite her effort to hide

his coffee cup was empty, she reached for the pot. “Let me refill that for you,” she offered, forcing the smile to

darkened as he looked at her. He had made himself

cup she’d touched out of his way, stood up, and said sharply, “Don’t get

her head down, words forming too late. By then, he

she knocked the entire coffee set off

her! Why does Yvonne get

up a round of photos. Just as Yvonne was framing another shot, Margie pointed.

F𝖎rst 𝒂pp𝓮ared 𝒊n gⲁ𝅘𝓁𝗇𝑜ν𝖊𝗅⩼𝒸𝗈𝗺

see the rock garden. Margie, though, still hadn’t let go of

because she didn’t want

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