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“Kayleigh and Brothers.”

“Kayleigh is living high, probably somewhere glamorous,” I say. “I don’t think about it because I know she’s doing just fine.”

“And Brothers?”

“Brothers Boyd is like a cat,” I say. “He’ll always land on his feet.”

She nods, like she’s ready to move on. I hold the door for her, guiding her into the hallway with our daughter in her arms. Before I step inside, I pause in the doorway and look out over my ranch.

I got everything I wanted in the end. Now, when I think of home, it's just bittersweetness on my tongue. For the hills, for the people who made me, for better and for worse.

Those feelings of bittersweetness come, but they go, and I’m left knowing only one thing for certain.

I am home.

THE END