The Bitten Born
never met. The chilly wind kicked up swaths of dust from the ashes as Aunt Rayah gently sifted them from the brushed nickel urn into the water. Bro
e her seem some how at peace. Brooke couldn't help taking her phone from the pocket of her jacket and capturing an image of the moment. When the last of the ash
d wondering about the show of
... reminds m
my pa
er tear. Her parents had been killed in a
ing to him before we leave?"
ion questions jumping around in her head, not the least of which
go see the cabin?"
uld
sell it for ten years. And it's a long way from New
ok in a deep breath of the f
There may be some old p
as right. That there would be something s
of kin until the notice from his attorney arrived with a package containing the inheritance he'd left to he
d her aunt when they climbed back into the car
nsisted. "I honestly didn't think your mother had any family but us
, this man kne
if bracing herself for one of the many ha
n silence. Brooke wished she had known Raymond Ellis, III. Someone who could have connected her to her mother the way Aunt Raya
orth a small fortune according to a representative from Omega Development who'd stopped by her Aunt's house before they'd left for the
r why he had not contacted her until after he died, but she couldn't help it. She was in the middle of considering th
l up and get snacks
oda," Broo
nty dollar bill. "Gr
all cooler near the register. They looked like old-timey bowith large brown eyes encased in thick dark lashes and hooded beneath dark brows. His short curls were tapered at the edges and swirled jus
d went blank and she felt an invo
ked up the soft cadence of
she ad
. He took both bottles, popping the top of each before handing them back. He was more than a head taller than her five foot six, an
he said waving
said trying to ha
any. I bottled these myself l
, and she shook it
rooke
D on the label and smiled good natured. "Follow us on social media. Post a picture of the label when you get bac
ver her. She tried to turn her eyes away from him a
?" he asked as he returned to the re
rass Island. I just inherite
wide and his jaw fell slack and it fel
I say somet
Romance
Romance
Romance
Romance
Romance
Romance