Capítulo 245: Chapter 245: On Vacation

Jackie Walker Fox glanced over at her children peering eagerly out the window as their Air Canada flight touched down in Tampa. Eight-year-old Grant and six-year-old Emma had chattered excitedly during the entire three-hour flight from Toronto.

Seeing them so happy thrilled Jackie. Grant and Emma were generally happy children, truthfully, despite the fact that their father had left the three of them a few years earlier. David Fox hadn’t appreciated the remoteness of Lake Miranda Lodge, the family-run northern Ontario guest lodge where Jackie and her brother Blake had been raised.

Of course, both Jackie and Blake had grown up and left Lake Miranda, going their own ways. But when their father Jim had suffered a stroke, Jackie had volunteered to return to run the place, so their parents could retire to Florida. She and her now-ex-husband David had made it work for a while, but he’d missed his suburban life…and his girlfriend, she’d found out later.