"I'm sure it'll taste fine," she said. And yes, she meant it. She was pretty good at trying new things. Glancing at her, she smiled. "It sounds nice. The big family, I mean. I sort of had a small one, but they meant a lot. It's hard here sometimes being without them."

Nathan, Audrey, Duke. Especially Duke. They'd welcomed her in and it meant a lot to her. Maybe that was why it was hard to let go.

"Did you live in a place like this back home, too?" she asked, not wanting to get all gloomy. Really not her intention. "Sort of out of the way, I mean."