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I hold up my hand. “I don’t need to know.”
His nose scrunches. “I wish I could unsee what I saw the time I walked in on them.”
“Liar. You knew what they were up to and barged into the supply room anyway.”
He smirks. “I thought Miller was going to kill me.”
“And yet you’re smiling about it.” His smile deepens. “Brothers. I’ll never understand them.”
Pain slashes through me at the idea of never getting the chance to understand my brother. I push those thoughts out of my mind, but obviously not quick enough, considering Elder’s guiding me with a hand on my lower back toward his office.
I shake him off. “I’m fine.”
“You don—”
He’s cut off when someone shouts my name. “Harmony Kingsley!”
The crowd quiets down. “Harmony Kingsley!”
I raise my hand. “I’m Harmony. Can I help you?”
“Oh, thank goodness I found you. When you weren’t at home, I went to your neighbor’s house and they suggested I come here,” a woman says as she walks toward me.
“Do I know you?”
“I’m Ms. Cross, the social worker.”
The social worker? The way she announces her title makes me think I’m supposed to know who she is and why she’s here.
She frowns when I don’t respond. “Did Mr. Craven not contact you?”
“Who’s Mr. Craven?”
“The executor of Amy Kingsley’s estate.”
I must have heard her incorrectly. “The executor?”
“Oh dear. You don’t know.”
“Don’t know what?”
She clears her throat. “I’m sorry to inform you of the passing of your cousin.”
My heart stops. Amy, my only living relative, is gone? No, it can’t be. “Amy’s dead?”
I sway to the side and Elder wraps an arm around my shoulder to support me. I lean into him and his arm tightens around me.
“I’m afraid so.” She pauses, but I don’t have time to ask what happened and when before she speaks again. “As the only remaining living relative, you are being given temporary custody.”
“T-t-temporary custody? I don’t understand.”
She reaches down to pick up her bag only it’s not a bag it’s a baby carrier. Holy bananas. It’s a baby.
“Is this Robin?”
Amy gave birth two months ago, but I haven’t met Robin yet. I wanted to drive down to Denver for the birth, but my cousin asked me to wait.
Ms. Cross lifts the baby out of the carrier and hands her to me. “I’ll be back soon to help with all the paperwork. I hadn’t realized how far the drive to Winter Falls was.” She checks her watch. “I have other families I need to attend to. I’ll be in touch.”
