Sadness comes in waves. Some moments she felt perfectly fine. Others, not as much.
She had been on the island for four days. She had spoken to the girls every day, sometimes more than once. Having her nephews around also helped ease her heartache.
However, as she was walking along the beach back towards the house after a stroll and noted her cheeks were dampened and as she wiped the tears away, she realized she was crying. It struck her all of a sudden how pointless the entire situation with Jonas had been and he was dead. More importantly, it occurred to her, while one officer had shot to wound, the other had shot to kill and the more she thought about it, the more she was convinced the officer had not hesitated to murder the man.
Despite Alvar saying the goal had been to remove him an
