"Aren't the medallions lovely?" Stephanie suddenly spoke up after a pause that was about a moment too long. Marcelo wasn't really something she wanted to talk about a whole lot, not even to Brooke. Mostly because she still wasn't sure if they'd made the right decision or not. It'd seemed so impossible and she'd been sure of it at the time, but she missed him terribly.

But Brooke, well, Brooke would surely notice that she was clearly trying to avoid the topic.

"I don't know." God, even the words were hard to get out. Partly because of what they meant, but also because she hated acknowledging that she didn't know something. She was supposed to be the all-confident mistress of her destiny.