I'd only seen her a few of times during those intervening years, at the children's graduation ceremonies and the like. I'd ignored her and we hadn't s...oken. But at Jeannette's wedding, I doubted that I would get away with doing that again without a confrontation of some kind, especially with the reception afterward.Yeah, I'd had a few words with both Jeannette and Asha during the planning stage of things. Even James and Ashley had put their oars in during the discussions. Jeannette wanted both. For two weeks—two wonderful weeks—Emily went wherever I went. My milk had come in and she was eating well. And often. I was taking a month off of selling real estate to get settled before I started tracking down more sellers for the spring. It’s hard to sell houses in January in Minne-snow-ta. For one thing, people track in snow and mud. If I held an open house, I needed to have brown craft paper laid down over all the traffic pathways, ask people to leave their snow boots at the door, and then. Maybe you'll come and visit after the next full moon." If nothing untoward happens then we'll come. I promise, mother Rose." He made a small bow to her.With that, she turned and grabbed up Dan and moved with my father away from the wagon. I was glad that there was to be no water works. I climbed up to my spot on Del's back. I smiled and waved at everyone there and Del waved his tail at them. Then he started walking off up the road. When we came to the same ridge we stopped at on the way in we. I put my VIP badge in my purse.I was surprised when the door behind me opened into a hotel room. I pushed the cart into Mathew’s room. He was not a tall man but he still had to bend down to kiss me.“Kimi, I love the way you kiss.”“Mr. Zimmer, I like the way you kiss.”“Please call me Matt.” Then immediately he asked when I had lunch.“I had a nice tuna salad a little before noon. Are you offering a big dinner now?”“Only if you want it. Humor me. I asked you to bring an elegant dress. Please put.