Caris saw Boone sitting on her front steps when she arrived, and he was frowning. Her face was just as grim as she got out of the car and Malachi exited as well to get her bags from the trunk.
“I don’t want you to go in there,” Boone said as soon as she stepped out.
“Why? What’s wrong with my house?” her heart stopped at his words.
Malachi dropped her bags beside the car and was at her side quickly as he looked to Boone, “was someone in her house?”
“They trashed it,” he swallowed as if he was hesitating on delivering worse news. “They trashed your grandmother’s roses Caris.”
“No,” she raced around the house to the back yard. Her swimming pool was filled with debris of her grandmother’s rose bushes. She instantly started weeping, “no, no, no.”
Malachi’s arms wrapped around her, and sh
