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not to call me or contact me in any way. I know for a fact that you were told several times by the police to back the fuck off.” He took a step toward Emerald, and she flinched from him. In that moment Annabelle knew that he’d hit her before. “Get out.”
    Annabelle had no idea what the young man—his name was Nolan, she just remembered—would have done to either of them had Allen not stepped through the open door. He looked at Emerald, then at the young man, before standing in front of her granddaughter.
    “I think you’ve overstayed your welcome, young man, and now would be a good time to get out. As you’ve been asked to do several times now.” Nolan looked like he might have said more, but Blair and Josh both came into the kitchen from the dining room. “You heard me. It’s time you left. And it might be best if you never returned.”
    He looked pissed when he looked at her. Annabelle nearly took a step back, but he looked at Emerald then. If looks could cause harm, she’d have been seriously injured. She had wondered then and now how badly the man had hurt her granddaughter.
    “You’re making the biggest mistake of your life, Emerald. You know it and I know it. Call off the family and I’ll forget this whole thing.” She lifted her chin and he laughed. “We’ll see how this ends for us. I told you that we’re going to be together, and now we have unfinished business, you and I. Just remember that you’ve been warned.”
    After he left the house, peeling out of the driveway and spraying rocks everywhere, Emerald had looked at all of them. Annabelle’s heart broke for her granddaughter and still hurt for her. She left them then, just went to her car and left. As far as Annabelle knew, she’d not been back since.
    Celeste coming down the hall made her stand up. Annabelle reached for Emerald again, but she told her she was too upset to talk now. Celeste was smiling hugely when she pulled her into her arms for a hug.
    “He’s going to come with us. I’ll have to set him up in a hotel, but he’s coming with us. I’m so…do you think your family will mind that he’s there too?” Before she could tell her they’d love it, Celeste was talking again. “I just couldn’t believe it. He said that he missed spending time with me, and thought that since I was going to France in a couple of weeks he’d spend some time with me if I didn’t mind. If I didn’t mind? My goodness, I wanted to scream at him how much I didn’t mind. What do you think of that?”
    “I think the family would welcome him in the house. And there is no reason for him to be put in a hotel. One of my granddaughters is a doctor and another one is a nurse. He’ll get the best of care.” Celeste nodded and was so happy that Annabelle couldn’t help but be happy for her too. “He’ll love it there so much, he might want to move in with them.”
    “Oh, that would be lovely, just lovely.” As they made arrangements with his doctor to have him released, Annabelle let Sapphire and Blair know what was going on. They were, of course, thrilled and would welcome them both with open arms. The only concern they had was if he knew about them.
    “Not that I’m aware of. So far as I know, Celeste doesn’t either.” Sapphire laughed when she told them that she thought it was time to tell her old friend. “What could happen other than she’d have a massive heart attack and have to be converted?”
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    Emerald moved up her stairs, thinking about how much longer she was going to live there. There was so much she’d accumulated over the year and a half she’d lived here, and she was going to hate packing it up…especially as sore as she was. Going up the last step, she looked around the corner to make sure that Nolan wasn’t lurking in the corners again. The last time had been bad enough.
    Entering her apartment, she closed the door behind her and leaned heavily against it. She needed to shift, but more than that, she wanted to