Chapter 2059

The minutes crept into hours, the hours into days, until summer break slipped quietly upon the town, freeing every classroom and playground.

Cecilia brought the two kids home, and together, they returned to the Rainsworth Manor for a family reunion.

These weekly pilgrimages-sometimes once, sometimes twice-let her hold her two younger sons close and feel, for a few unhurried evenings, that the world was stitched back together.

With school closed, crowds of workers soon began their own journeys home, trains and buses swelling with people chasing the warmth of reunion.

On one hazy afternoon of departures and arrivals, Cecilia’s phone vibrated. Calvin’s name glowed on the screen.

“Ceci, we finally found Sven.”

“Are you serious? How is he?”