The Truth About Comfort Cove (28 page)

O
n the day
Chris and Emma Talbot announced that they were expecting their first child, Ramsey and Lucy-Claire Miller announced that they’d eloped. They told her family first. Rose and Frank, who’d eloped the week before, were at home. They called Cal and Morgan from their house. And stopped by to see Chris and Emma.

From there they got in their car, already packed with their suitcases, and set out for the long drive to their honeymoon in Florida.

They made a brief stop on the way. In Vienna, Kentucky, where Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Sr., welcomed them with tears and open arms. While they were there, Ramsey’s mother pulled him aside—to warn him to be good to this girl who was too good for him, Ramsey was sure.

Instead, she apologized for blaming him for something he couldn’t possibly have prevented. Diane could just as easily have taken those pills if Ramsey had been right there at the party with her. The choice she’d made was her own. Not Ramsey’s.

She was fading. But she was at peace. And she loved her son.
Before they left, Ramsey promised his father, and himself, that he and Lucy-Claire would make frequent visits to Vienna from that point forward. Life was too short, and too precious, to waste.
Lucy-Claire agreed with him completely.