the resort shortly before eleven and parked exactly where Sophie had instructed me.
Beyond the employee building, sunlight glittered across the lake.
I turned off the engine and waited.
Any second now, Sophie would walk through those doors.
My summer of missing her would finally be over.
Then the door opened.
Sophie stepped outside.
And before I even noticed the nervous smile on her face, I noticed what she was carrying.
A baby.
A newborn baby.
For a second, my mind refused to understand what I was seeing.
A diaper
