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He straightened his spine and took the burning log from her grasp, then grabbed her hand and led her carefully over the streams of burning grass to Kru’s trailer.

He looked down at her one last time, just to make sure.

“Why?” she asked.

He stared at the trailer that had been a part of her sanctuary.

“Why?” she whispered again.

“Because you told me to,” he said, remembering his words from her vision.

And then Lucia held his hand as they set the trailer on fire.

Chapter Sixteen

“What are you going to do with your cabin?” Jenna asked.

Lucia held the book closer to her chest as she looked at the burned rubble where her trailer used to stand. Kru was on a huge excavator, leveling the ground where the remnants of the trailers had been. There was a massive pile to burn by the empty cage where Gunner used to be.

“I listed it for sale.”

“But didn’t your dad help you build that cabin?” Cadence asked.

Lucia smiled and twisted around to look at where Beaston and Landon were ushering the first trailer into the park. Beaston had helped Landon take down the Smashland Mobile Park sign so the trucks could drag the new mobile homes to their designated pad sites. She knew her dad would be helping Landon rebuild it when the semi-trucks hauling the trailers were all gone.

“He’s helping us rebuild this entire park. This is where the magic will be, ladies.” She could see what was to come now, and it was good.

“Are you going to paint yours,” Jenna asked as she eyed the new, cream-colored single-wide that was being dragged slowly into the clearing.

“I asked Landon if he wanted to,” Lucia said, “But he wants it the same color as ten-ten.”

“Ha,” Jenna murmured. “That’s what Lucas wants too.”

“Kru too.”

“We are going to live in the most boring trailer park in existence,” Jenna said.

Lucia just smiled. No, they would not.

“What about ten-ten,” Cadence asked. “Who will live in that?”

“Gunner?” Jenna guessed.

“Oh no. Gunner is long gone. He won’t come back. Lucas broke the bonds to him and banished him.”

“Were you the one who let him out of the cage?” Jenna asked.

Lucia nodded.

“Why?”

“I had to.” Lucia pursed her lips against a smile. Gunner’s story wasn’t finished, but the girls didn’t need to know that. They were still angry with him, and that was fair. He’d caused great hurt here. But Lucia understood the broken parts of him better than the others. His ending would be different than they realized. “Ten-ten will let us know who is supposed to live in it,” Lucia said.

Lucas pulled a semi through the park and angled Lucia and Landon’s new trailer to replace the old one on the singed concrete pad. As he and Beaston began preparing the single-wide to detach it from the back of the truck, the woods came alive with movement.

“Oh my gosh,” Cadence murmured. “My family is here.”

“Mine too!” Jenna uttered.

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