After she walked away, Mia and Kate had a private little celebration. “I guess we are truly in the honey business now, aren’t we?” Mia said.
“I guess we are. Who knew this is where we would be this time last year? Sisters, boyfriends, Dad… And now honey?” Kate said.
“I guess you never really know where life is going to take you.”
A few minutes later, Evie sped past the table on a scooter. Following behind her were Abigail and Elijah, her brother and sister. Brandon and his wife had opted to move to Atlanta shortly after his bone marrow transplant. They were impressed with the hospitals, and Brandon wanted to be closer to Evie.
Many weekends, they would come up to Carter’s Hollow and spend time with her, letting the kids get to know each other and sometimes even staying at the B&B. Kate and Kara couldn’t have been any different, and she wasn’t really all that fond of the woman, but she and Brandon had mended fences enough to be good co-parents to Evie.
“Slow down on that thing!” Kate said, waving her hand at Evie as she flew by. Evie groaned and kept going, her siblings following after her like ducklings.
She was very happy that Brandon was considered to be in remission, although he would have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life. He still had to be careful and go to his doctor appointments to make sure that things were still going well. From what she could tell he was finally getting back on his feet.
Kara, although not her favorite person, had thanked Kate on multiple occasions. Of course, Evie had also thanked her mother time and again for what she had done. But to Kate, there had been no other choice. You help people, even when it’s someone you may not understand or like.
Mia had told her that she got that from their mother, and Kate was starting to believe that genetics were a strong factor in her life.
“Where’s Travis?”
“He’s down at his table. After working on that book, he is in high demand now. I’m surprised he even has time to sell his photographs at an event like this. He’s been fielding offers from all over the world.”
“How do you feel about that? I know you don’t want to be away from each other very much,” Kate said, rearranging the jars of honey for the twentieth time that day.
“He’s only working on projects that might take him away for a day or two, but anything longer he’s pretty much turning down. Although, he did get one offer in the Caribbean, and we’re thinking about making a trip out of it. I hope you can watch the B&B if we do that?”
Kate laughed. “I think I can help you out with that. You deserve to see the world, sis. Mom would understand if you left the B&B sometimes.”
“I know, I know.”
As Kate stood back and looked around at the festival, she could see all of the different people that she loved. Evie was zipping around in the parking lot with her two adoring siblings behind her. Cooper was walking up and down the pathway, trying to convince people to have a bite of honey. Her dad and Sylvia were smelling candles at a table off in the distance. And of course, her sister was standing right next to her, always her sidekick and best friend.
There was nothing that Kate could imagine that would be better than this. No, this life was getting sweeter all the time.
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