When just the four of them remained, Matt told Brett, “You know, there’s a place for you in the Krewe, if you’re interested in moving up to DC.”
Brett looked at Lara, and she smiled. “Well, my best friend is a Krewe agent. It looks like a really good job. Right now, though, I still have a dolphin who deserves a lot of fish.”
Brett turned to Matt and shook his head.
“The offer remains open,” Matt said. A few minutes later he and Meg went up to bed.
Lara started to pick up the few remaining glasses, but Brett went over and stopped her by slipping his arms around her.
“It really is beautiful to see Miguel and Maria together that way,” Lara said. “I just wonder...will they leave? And go—I hope—to heaven?”
“I don’t know. I know that if they stay, it will be together. I believe, though, that they will go on, and that they’ll stay together.”
“I believe that, too.”
“It’s a forever kind of a thing,” he said.
“Kind of what I feel for you,” she told him.
He smiled. “Same here. So I guess tonight begins our forever, don’t you think?”
She nodded gravely, and then a fiery light touched the blue-green beauty of her eyes. “Forever should be fun and really sexy, huh?”
“Absolutely.”
She nodded, turned and headed up the stairs.
He watched her and thought of Miguel and what he’d once told Brett.
I knew—I just knew. And it didn’t matter how long we’d been together or what others thought. I knew that I would love her forever.
“Thank you, Miguel,” Brett said softly.
And then he followed Lara up the stairs.
*
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The Hidden
by Heather Graham
1
A majestic elk stood stock-still on the hill, long neck arched to the sky in the sunset, antlers large and proud. Scattered wildflowers nestled within the long grass, and the colors of the horizon were almost whimsical in their beauty.
Scarlet Barlow kept her distance, though the animal didn’t seem to be the least bit afraid of her. The elk in the area were accustomed to people who came to hike the mountainous country, the crests and valleys and little plateau where the one-time Conway Ranch was now a bed-and-breakfast, complete with a gift shop and museum. No one disturbed the elk that came here to graze the lush meadows, and the elk apparently knew that. The B and B was a mere stone’s throw from the eastern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, so those who came to admire the animal life there meant it no harm.
The big bull elk seemed to be aware that he was posing like a model; it was almost as if he was happy to offer her the photo op.
She snapped several pictures, paused and glanced at them on the screen, then smiled, pleased with what she had captured.
“Thank you, sir,” she said to him, then turned away and looked out over the natural splendor of the Rockies and the town of Estes Park, nestled among them.
People came here for many reasons.