With supper finally on the table, they sat down, held hands, and bowed their heads while Pop recited the same grace he always offered up. “Bless the food before us, the family beside us, and the love between us.”
They all murmured “Amen,” and began to pass around the platter of lamb shanks.
Meg helped herself to a lamb shank with its coating of salt, garlic powder, and dried rosemary leaves. She added it to the mashed potatoes, salad, and asparagus already on her plate just as her cell phone began to play the theme from Hawaii Five-0.
“Really, Meg.” Once again, Mom was annoyed. “How many times have I told you to turn that thing off when we’re having supper?”
“Sorry, Ma. I have to take this. It’s from work.”
“God alone knows what you were thinking to join the sheriff’s department. So u
