Chapter 19

Six months later, Nathan was gone – bled out in that parking lot. Claire was serving life for first–degree murder.

Lucy and I stood outside a private adoption agency, watching through the window as a small ceremony unfolded

inside.

Cooper was meeting his new parents – a kind–faced couple who couldn’t stop smiling.

The little boy looked up at his new father hesitantly. “Daddy, can I have a hug?”

“You can have all the hugs you want, buddy. Every

with pure joy,

resilient. He’d already begun

that led

a knowing look, both

“What if he comes looking

laugh. “You’ve been watching too many thriller movies.”

if?” she pressed.

my eyes on the road, smiling slightly. “Then I’ll face it.”

to

to become a young man of principle and purpose,

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