Chapter 29

Summer teared up when she heard what Amelia said over the phone.

No one loved her more than her parents.

"Don't worry, Mom, I'm doing fine here. James is very good to me. The worst thing that's happened to me is that I get a little bored," she said.

"It's Dad now, Summie," Fred said on the other end of the call. "Your mother is right, if you don't like it there, you can always come home."

Summer was silent as she tried her best to hold back her tears. Even though she was far from home, she could still feel her parents' concern for her.

"Summie, it's not that we're not concerned about you or how you ended up marrying James. We're very worried about you, you know?" Fred continued. "That little bastard, Hank, teamed up with Simone to bring us down. None of us are happy about this, but you took it especially hard. We were hoping that you would get over it quickly, but that didn't happen, did it?

"James spoke to us before you came home that day, actually. Did you know that he asked us