The woman jerked around. No one had called her Victoria in decades. She froze in place. Rita too had stopped dead. “Vic? Is that really you?”

“Rita? What are you doing here?” Tori got up and ran toward her friend.

“What am I doing here? What are you doing here?”

The women sat down and covered most of the past twenty years in about an hour. They cried, hugged, and cried some more. They were tears of joy.

Luna also got weepy at the unplanned reunion, and then her walkie-talkie crackled. It was Ellie. Jimmy was in the building. He was wearing a hoodie and sunglasses. “Meet me in the atrium,” Ellie said.

“Ladies, can you both come with me?” Luna asked.

“Where?” Rita asked. Tori shrugged.

“Just into the atrium. Ellie wants to see us.”

The three women walked out of the café and saw Ellie speaking to a man who could have been mistaken for a burglar. Nathan was standing by, so they weren’t concerned. As the women got closer, the man stiffened.

Tori recognized her brother immediately in spite of his disguise. It was his stance. He always leaned more on one side and hooked his thumbs in his front pockets. “Jimmy?”

“Vic?” He gulped.

Victoria ran over and threw her arms around him. “J.T., I am so sorry. So, so, very sorry.” She was bawling at this point.

He held her close and rocked her back and forth. “It’s OK, Vic. I’m OK.” Tears streamed down his hidden face. “You actually did me a favor. The family they placed me with were very nice people. They got me counseling, where I learned to deal with the trauma. That’s when I began to make things with metal.”

Tori couldn’t stop sobbing. Luna jumped in. “Maybe we should take this inside.” She motioned for all of them to follow her into Cullen’s showroom. She led the way into the workshop. That morning, Cullen had finished putting the trunk back together with its shiny hinges and lock. “This is a big day for surprises.” She pointed to the trunk. “I believe this belongs to you.”

Jimmy was stunned. He stood there, silently taking in the events of the past few minutes. “How did you find out? And how did Vic end up here?”

“Let’s go back to my café, and we’ll start from the beginning. You know, the part where you had this delivered to my brother?”

“And the part where I found out about Luna because I was standing in the right spot in a grocery store I had never visited before?” Tori chimed in.

“This may take a while.” Luna chuckled.