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“I haven’t bought an evening gown in years,” Alexa said, sounding excited… eleven years… since she was married to Tom…and now she was going back, not as his wife, but as her own person… the prosecutor from New York, as Sava

When Sava

At Sava

It was lovely in the garden of the country club. Her grandmother gave her a small pearl necklace that had been her own mother’s, and her father gave her a very handsome check and told her how proud of her he was. She said she was going to buy what she would need for college. And she was coming back to Charleston to see Turner in August, and all of them of course. Tom hoped that Luisa would be away then, visiting her family in Alabama, as she did every summer. She had relatives all over the South.

For the two days after graduation, Sava

Sava

Daisy stood crying on the front steps when Sava

“Thank you for everything, Luisa,” Sava

“You weren’t a nuisance,” Luisa said coldly. “Have a safe trip.” She made no move to come toward Sava

“Goodbye,” Sava

Sava

Chapter 19

Sava

Everyone had been thrilled to see Sava

Turner had come up for her New York graduation, and she showed him all the sights. All her girlfriends thought he was gorgeous and really nice, and even the boys she knew liked him. And her grandmother took them both to lunch, and she showed him her court. Turner was impressed that her grandmother was a judge, and her mother an assistant DA. His own mom had never worked before she died.

“Neither did mine when she was married to my dad,” Sava

Sava

And the day after he left, Sava

“Mom,” Sava

“That’s what Grandma said. I don’t know what you two have in mind. Maybe you’re pla