“Promise me, Emma.” Had I not known she saw through the charade, it would have stopped my heart. “Don’t ask anything of Emma, Mother,” Jack tried. “I ask too much of her as it is.” It was a noble attempt, but Abigail would not be deterred; her frail hand gripped mine as tightly as it could. “Promise to watch out for Jack? He can do well…will do well. But he needs good counsel, someone who won’t”—she took a breath—“leave him behind.”
Calling it now: Jack will have a redemption arc that Emma will be heavily involved with.
