Epilogue
It didn’t surprise me when Sean confessed to sending me the emails, which actually helped him as they seemed to be warnings, if rather confused ones. In fact, after the shrinks got done with him they convinced the DA to let him plead to a year of inpatient treatment and a suspended sentence, as long as we, the injured parties, agreed.
Amber took some convincing but I knew Sean was under Jeanetta’s spell, not innocent but almost as much a victim as we were. That enchantment may have been metaphorical or may have been literal but no matter what, it was true and Amber agreed, and if Amber agreed, eventually Elle would too, I knew.
Jeanetta got eight to ten in the state women’s prison down at Chowchilla – I know, funny name, sounds like they should make cheap fur coats there, but look it up – and so for at least that long I don’t have to worry about her. The next time I went up to Lover’s Leap and waited, Shane didn’t appear. I even took Spanky with me, but he didn’t seem to see any ghosts.
Mom still haunts me but not Amber as far as I know, but won’t tell me why. I want to figure out what she needs to be at peace, but then again, a ghost mom is better than no mom at all. Dad and Adam seem to be cool with me staying with Will, which surprises me a bit, at least in Dad’s case. He always was old-fashioned when it came to premarital sex. It would probably surprise him to find out Will and I did it – badly, I have to admit – when we were in high school, and surprise him even more to find out how long we waited to do it again.
But yeah, we’re doing it now.
Carefully, with precautions.
Will says he loves me, and I said I love him at least once, but I’m still not at all sure we're speaking the same language. We still haven’t talked any more about that night, and what he saw. I think he’s afraid to push, so we keep putting off that conversation, but it will come eventually.
Amber says I’m overthinking things, as usual.
So is this happily ever after?
I’m not at all sure. I still have a career, and I’m not going to drag Will around all over the world. He’d just get in the way. Oh, come on, it’s true. No matter how much the guy says he’d give up everything, it just doesn’t work that way. Guys need their stuff, and their buddies, and more importantly they need something to do, to achieve. Will wouldn’t be achieving anything as my take-along boy-toy.
For now, until my editor comes up with an assignment, I guess it’s just ever after, happily enough.
End of MoonRise.
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