Who Is Deborah?. Elise Title

giving me a curious look. I had the clear impression she’d been testing me; that she knew Deborah didn’t care for bacon and eggs and wanted to see what I’d say. Did Lillian, like her cousin, have doubts about my identity? Not that it mattered what either one of them believed at this point, I told myself firmly. Or what I believed, for that matter. Either way, I was leaving.

      But then my gaze fell once more on the photo. Was I again acting impulsively? In leaving so precipitously, was I really running away from…myself? As I looked at the image of the handsome, adoring man with his arms around the “girl of his dreams,” I couldn’t help wondering if it would truly be so awful for Nicholas to come to accept me as Deborah; to welcome me back to Raven’s Cove? Could this be a chance at a new beginning, not just for me, but for him, as well? For the two of us together? What if he were to once again look at me with that same heartfelt love…?