Epilogue (Leroy)

Elizabeth put another log on the fire. She missed South Carolina. She missed the mansion and the pool. She missed that life.

Was it all worth it? Sacrificing all that for the sake of honoring her father's legacy? There was no reward, no platitudes, nothing to signify that anything she'd done would ever be remembered or valued.

Nor could she say that things had gone swimmingly in exile. Erin was transgendered, but in a happy relationship with Eugene. Emily was in a lesbian relationship with Deondra. Katie had a child from a felon. Her children with Moses and Abe and Leroy were doing more successful in minority-majority city, and that was its own blessing.

She felt her lecher husband's cock stiffen against her ass. No, it wasn't all bad. But honoring the Castle legacy was, as it turned out, a sacrifice for her.