Private Conversation Between Sisters, and Gunshots on the Street

Staring at her cousin, Haley observed her expression and her movements. "Elena and he are quite compatible, right? So, you want a boyfriend too?"

Margaret couldn't help but think carefully for a moment before she shook her head a little uncertainly. "No, no. I just think he's a nice guy. I feel happy when I'm around him."

Haley frowned. That wasn't a good answer.

Her cousin might be naive, but when she was decisive, it was scary.

Nobody in the family had known when Margaret married William Johnson.

It wasn't until she asked Haley for help that Haley found out that she was married, and that her "brother-in-law" whom she had never met was dead.

But what could they do?

As an artist, her emotions weren't logical.

"Oh," Haley simply replied, and immediately changed the subject. "How was the art exhibition this afternoon?"