-TO BE TAKEN DOWN-
Katy Thomas is best known for her booming bakery shop, Katy Cakes, that has desserts as sweet as she.
Her new neighbor, Gage Rivers, is best known for being bitter and closed off from others.
The only thing they really have in com...
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Strong violence and really dark themes ahead. Ye be warned.
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"Daddy, did you have a brother?"
That was the question that started it all. The beginning of change in what used to be a simple family vacation.
When Christmas was about to roll in, Katy and I would pack up for Violet's beach house in Panama for two reasons: to get the girls out of the house, and to visit my siblings. We started the tradition when the girls were only a year old, which was fine since they weren't old enough to understand the magnitude of the trip. However, the trip this year, only a few months after their fourth birthday, will be different.
All because of that damn question.
"They are too young," I argued with Katy as I threw clothes into our suitcase haphazardly days before our trip. "They don't need to know where I go when I visit Paxton. They definitely don't have to know why, either."
Katy let out a soft sigh as she watched me work from across the room.
"Yes, I understand that. But the girls will have to understand at some point--"
"Not when they are four." I zipped up our suitcase a little too harshly.
"Then when?" she countered. "Because I know that even when they are twice their age now, they will still ask. They have been wanting to know about your brother for a long time. And with how things are now . . ." When she grew quiet I looked up to see her softly run a hand over her plump belly. "They are really going to be curious."
