After visiting her mother’s grave, Alice felt calm in her heart. There was a change in her that she had not anticipated. Axel and the twins had already become her entire world. Keeping them safe and happy was all she cared about.
But Alice found herself feeling restless on their return. Her priorities hadn’t changed, her family was still most important, but she felt like something else was missing. Something else that she needed to do.
A few months later, when Ashleigh sent Axel her proposal about Alice’s return to work, she felt irritated by the request. But as Corrine and Axel talked with her about it, when Fiona and Galen also weighed in, Alice began to see the fear each of them held.
As she listened to their troubles, each encouraging the behaviors that most of them had held against her for a long time, she realized there was cause for concern.
Alice thought of her cousin and his son playing in their yard.
