Then Naomi put her hand over the baby footprints.

“They could have known you then.”

“Yes,” Preston answered.

“And I can’t give them those years back.”

PART 10: The House on the Lake

Constance invited Preston to dinner at her lakefront residence as though nothing had happened.

The house had belonged to his grandparents, but during the last decade she had renovated it with sweeping glass walls and a gallery of expensive paintings.

He came alone.