Chapter 2
The Shoppes at Brickell offered Caro a beverage to drown out the guitar-playing retired people and their Christmas hymns in her backyard. The long day at work as a maid in the Morgan home made her exhausted, but her home was busy. She wasn't far from Brickell, and an hour out of the house to act like a young, single woman would be great. She maneuvered her way through her mother's guests and the now mostly eaten pig on the pit. Her brother, Rafe, and her long ago ex-college boyfriend, Jose, cornered her near the front door.
Her brother asked, "Caro, where do you think you are going?"
She dropped her shoulders. Tomorrow was a work day. Unlike her mother and her friends, her brother, Jose, and even Jennifer, she had to get up in the morning.
She glanced around the backyard, and
