For over a week, Rachel’s journal lay untouched on the
bedside table. After so many years, Emma was finally falling in love with Joe,
and she couldn’t let Rachel’s sorrow encroach on her newfound happiness.
Instead, she threw all her energy into getting to know
Joe again. She made his favorite dinners, watched baseball with him, and took
long family walks with the dog.
One evening she even lit taper candles and served dinner
in the dining room.
“New York strip and candlelight?” Joe raised his
eyebrows. “And on a Wednesday night! What’s the occasion?”
Emma clutched the stem of her wine glass and looked up at
him through her lashes. “Well, since Andrew is out, I thought we could make it
a date night.”
“Will he be gone long enough?”
“Long enough for what?”
