Julianne looked at the door. She could hear Kimmy humming in the kitchen, a tuneless sound of forced normalcy. "What do you want from me?" she asked Michael.
Julianne looked at the lake, the sky, the girl who called her "Aunt Jules," the woman who'd once been her rival and was now something like a sister.
"Jules," he whispered. Not a question. A recognition. Like seeing land after years at sea.