“You’re my last family member.”“Ma’am, I think Lacey Barton would like to join our little family,” he told her. “I like her ma’am. She’s good for you.”“I shouldn’t have people close to me,” she said, her voice distant.“Nonsense. Life without love isn’t worth living,” Richard Collins said, pausing in his massaging as a memory overtook him. “If not for you, well, I wouldn’t have had a reason to go on with life.”“I’m sorry. She was very special to me also.” She remembered all too well the slow, agonizing death that cancer brought to Richard Collins’s wife, Elizabeth.“I remember,” Collins said, with a small, sad smile, “Elizabeth teaching this precious five-year-old to hit a tennis ball. She was so proud of you when you turned pro. We all were,” he said, finishing with her muscles and stepping back, looking aside as she rose from the table. Once her robe was on, Shawanda turned to him, pulled the old man to her and hugged him close.“I love you, Richard,” she said. She held him, wanting. “Let’s have no talk about war at the table, please,” Isa said.“My apologies, Lady Isabel,” Jesson said.Father spoke then. “Corec, Cousin Jesson has joined us today because it’s time for you to make some decisions about your future. Toman is my heir, and will take over the barony when I pass on, and Branth will be named steward when Mr. Jaks is ready for retirement. What would you like to do? I could purchase an apprenticeship for you among the tradesmen in Telfort, or Jesson has brought with him an invitation from the priests at Fort Hightower to join their order.”Corec had never considered working in the trades before, but to become a priest? His stomach turned as he thought of the fat village priest who spent his time poking his nose in other people’s business—and who hadn’t been able to save Mother when she got sick.“What sort of trade?” he asked.“You could choose one of the crafts,” Father said. “Or some of the merchant houses will take on apprentices from outside the.
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