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but Jecca wasn’t there. He’d had a glimpse of her father, who seemed to be as wide as he was tall and all muscle, but there wasn’t anything Tris could think of to say to him. That he was pursuing a girl he’d met when she was just nineteen? Joe Layton didn’t look like a man who would greet those words with a smile. Tristan had left with a new toolbox and driven back to Edilean.
    But now it seemed that Jecca was coming to spend the entire summer in Edilean. At long, long last, he was going to have a chance to spend time with her. The age difference was no longer a hindrance, so now maybe they could at last get to know each other.
    “Hey! I know,” Kim said on the phone. “You and I can go out with Jecca and Reede. Sort of an odd double date.”
    Reede? Tristan thought. What did he have to do with Jecca? But then he thought that Kim was probably just planning to fix Jecca up on a date. “Jecca is coming to Edilean?” he managed to say. “How did you arrange that?”
    “I pointed out that it was either me and Edilean, or her dad and New Jersey. She agreed instantly.”
    Tris didn’t laugh. “So what’s this about Reede? He hasn’t been home in what? Two years now.”
    “Oh dear, I think I’ve revealed something I’m not supposed to. I thse sed to.ink you better ask your dad.”
    “Kimberly!” Tristan said sternly, sounding as old as he could manage. “What is going on?”
    Kim was not intimidated by him. “Didn’t your mom tell you that she and your dad had reservations on some cruise?”
    “I don’t remember. A lot has happened to me in the last few weeks. I can’t keep it all straight.”
    “I know, and we’re all trying to help you.” Kim didn’t waste time on more sympathy. “Your mom swears she isn’t going to give up that cruise. She told my mom it took her half a year to talk your father into it, and if he doesn’t go on this one, she’ll never get him on a ship.”
    “Kim? What does this have to do with Reede and Jecca?”
    “I’m getting to that, just hold on. Your dad is going on the cruise and Reede is coming back to Edilean to take over your practice until you get well.”
    Tristan tried to control his impatience. “That’s great of him. He needs to settle down. Maybe he’ll stay here.”
    “You think everyone in the world should live in Edilean, Virginia.”
    “Only the good people.” He took a breath. “What does this have to do with your friend Jecca?”
    “You remember the first time Jecca visited me? I think you met her, didn’t you?”
    “Yes.” He would never tell anyone how much he’d done because of that meeting.
    “It’s a long story, but Reede and Jecca had a thing that time, and she’s kept up with him over the years. I think that when they see each other again . . . Well, I’m hoping they’ll hit it off. I’m going to do my best to get them together.”
    “What do you mean ‘a thing’?”
    “It’s too long to go into now,” Kim said, “and I need to go. I have wedding rings to file and polish. But keep your fingers crossed that I can get Reede and Jecca together. I think they’d make a great couple, don’t you?”
    “Reede wants to travel the world. He’ll never settle down.”
    “You just said—You really are in a bad mood, aren’t you? Maybe we won’t ask you out with Reede and Jecca and me, after all.” She waited for him to reply, but when he said nothing, she sighed. “How about if I come over this afternoon and tell you all about my latest jewelry designs?”
    I’d rather hear about Jecca, he thought, but didn’t say. He’d get her to tell him everything when she got there. “Sure, I’d love to have the company.”
    “Go tend your orchids,” Kim said as she said good-bye, then hung up.
    Tristan stood by the phone for quite some time, just staring at it. He was elated that Jecca was going to spend the summer in Edilean, but what was this about her and Reede? Kim had never mentioned a word about it.
    He went into his