Chapter 812

With that, Grace hung up. James was baffled. Did he say something wrong? He wondered if his unborn baby cousin was really going to take Grace's last name. He quickly sent her a text. "Grace, I was just making a hypothesis. It wasn't real." But he didn't receive a reply. When he tried calling her, she didn't pick up. Defeated, James headed to the hospital to deliver lunch to Hazel. When he arrived, Myra was the only one there. Elizabeth had already left for work. Myra was in the middle of an animated retelling of small-town gossip to Hazel. She talked about Warren Zachary from next door, Fiona York who lived behind the fields, and Sebastian Xenos, who lived up on the hillside. Hazel struggled to remember those names. She didn't have the faintest idea who they were, but Myra's enthusiasm was unstoppable. Cutting her off would've felt like a crime. Luckily, James walked in just then. Finally, she could stop caring about the endless list of neighbors back at the Wag