The Buyer Returns
Chapter 17 - The Buyer Returns
The man who had once offered to buy the Carter house returned.
This time, he offered even more money.
Robert was tempted.
The house required repairs.
The roof leaked.
The heating system was old.
But before answering, he called Emma and Ethan.
“What do you think?”
Emma smiled when she heard the question.
A year earlier, Robert would have made the decision alone.
Now he asked.
Ethan suggested they keep the house until everyone was ready.
Emma proposed renting the upstairs apartment to help cover expenses.
Robert agreed.
A young widow named Rachel moved in with her eight-year-old son.
Within months, the house felt alive again.
There were muddy shoes near the door.
Homework at the kitchen table.
Baseball equipment in the hallway.
Robert began fixing things around the house with Rachel’s son following him everywhere.
Something broken inside him began to heal.
Not because Margaret had been replaced.
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She never could be.
But because love had found another way to enter the house.
