Chapter 44: Prepared for everything.

WENDY FOLLOWED THE POLICE officer and Grayson into the house.

Their home.

She saw it with new eyes. When they moved in, she was so happy. Each piece of furniture, all the colors, she chose them with care. Looking at it now, she remembered all the reasons she loved it. Her husband had designed this especially for them. A home they could raise a family in, grow old together in.

Paul gurgled and waved at her from the car seat.

"Thank you, Priscilla. Set him there on the counter." Wendy waved at the marble surface and waited for the housekeeper to put her things down.

"Glad you're home." Priscilla smiled.

"Me too. Give me a hug?" Wendy squeezed the young woman tightly. Oh, the things Priscilla had put up with over the last year. Wendy would have to bug Grayson about doing something nice for her.

"This is the last of it." Bliss set the last of Paul's things on the counter while the men tended to the luggage.

"You didn't have to get that," Wendy said. Bliss never listened. Sh