Emma was beginning to feel out of place.

They walked into the kitchen. A beautiful woman with a perfectly coiffed bob looked up from the food she had been stirring. "Sweetheart" she said as she stretched her hands towards Daniel and he came forward to give her a hug. The sense of calm that always settled on him when he was with his family wrapped around him like a warm embrace.

Though his mother and sister had lived in the house for only four years, it was home because they were there.

His mother might have initially balked at him purchasing this home for her and Alexa in one of...