Were those tears glittering in my grandmother’s deep blue eyes, so similar to my own?
“It means more than I can say,” she replied. “And I’m so glad to see you happy here with your new family and all your friends. And now that’s what you’ll be able to truly focus on.”
Those words made me lift an eyebrow. “Are you saying I won’t have any more murders to solve?”
She didn’t answer for a moment, her gaze far away, as if fixed on something only she could see. “You’ve done the work you came here to do. Now is the time for a new stage in your life. I’m not saying you won’t have plenty of opportunities to do good in your community, only that it might take a different form from what you’ve been doing these past few years. Many blessings to you, Selena.”
The image in the crystal ball faded away then, but I had no desire to call my grandmother back. She’d reached out from the afterlife to send us all her love, and I couldn’t ask for anything more than that.
Very gently, I picked up the crystal ball and its mount, then set them back in their usual spot on the bookshelf. Quite possibly, I wouldn’t need them again…at least, not for a very long time.
But that was all right. My days would be filled with watching Celeste grow and become her own unique person, and eventually, I would go back to Once in a Blue Moon…or possibly not, depending on how things worked out. I knew the store would be just fine with Chloe at the helm, so maybe that part of my life was also over, with something new and exciting just around the corner.