Chapter 726

• Aiyana Laughing Water picked up her bags, taking one last look around her house. She had put it on the market, this place in Hollowford, where she had spent such wonderful years with James Schwartz.
• But after the disastrous turn that Bree Hampton’s entrance into her life had taken, she had watched, dumbly, as Handsome James had walked out the door that day, never to return.
• At first, she had waited; they had had disagreements before, he would come back to her, she told herself. But a little voice within her knew it was foolish to expect him to come back to her.