Broken Glass (37 page)

“I let him go,” I murmured. “He’s finally where he belo
ngs.” I told her everything
. All about falling in love with Conner, all about Tyson’s ghost, everything. I was exhausted by the time I’d finished. Channing’s response to all this was a surprise to me.

“I told you you’d be okay,” she said, smiling. “I told you.”

Epilogue
.

This is the part
in
which one would hope
that everyone lived happily ever after, right?
Realistically,
in most cases, that would be an incredibly far-fetched notion, but lucky for me, things did turn out pretty wonderful.

Conner met my mother. She loved him immediately. She was surprised, I think, that I really had somehow managed to move on. As for Conner’s mother, things took a little more time with her.
Julianne
never stopped thinking I was crazy, I’m sure, but eventually, and ever so cautiously, she warmed
back
up.

Channing didn’t have to look very long for a place to live. She moved into the spare bedroom at my mom’s house and turned out to be the best,
most non-crazy roommate I could ha
ve asked for. I talked her into taking some college classes with me. She’s now working towards a degree to help her be a motivational speaker to young kids.

Shakespeare got out of Craneville not long after I did and moved to California to become a model. He asked me to marry him before he left. I had to decline, of course, but not without letting him get away with a big smooch. He writes frequently.

Henry is still at Craneville. Same room, same deck of cards, same wisdom about him. I think he stays there on purpose to counsel the new crazies coming in. I visit him every week.

As for me, Ava Darton. I’m in love again. With Dr. Conner W
alker, with my mother, with my El C
amino, and with my life.

Why do I want to live?

Why not?

about the author

TABITHA
FREEMAN
was born in Habersham, GA with a pen and paper in her hands, and an extremely loud mouth
.
She
also penned
Ghost Story
(2011), book one in the
three part fantasy series.
When she’s not writing, she’s causing a ruckus with family and chasing around her Romanian sweetheart.

www.authortrfreeman.com

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