Family Business

Epilogue

One year later.....

Dana sat at the kitchen table checking her email. None of the colleges she had applied to have gotten back to her yet. Sigh!

"Dana" Alice said entering the kitchen. "Everyone is in the car, come on now."

Obediently she closed the laptop and followed her mother out. They were all dressed in black.

"Could you help me with this clasp? I don't know why baby things are so complicated." David said as he tried to fasten the baby into the car seat.

"Maybe because babies are not supposed to be able to handle it." Dana said with a laugh ruffling his hair before she turned her attention to her baby.

"Hey." Dana said kindly to Eric who was sitting in the seat at the back very quietly. "Why don't you come an sit next to Derrick?"

"I thought we agreed to call him Rick." Eric said with a frown. "Naming your kid after your our father is weird."

Dana shook her head sadly and changed the topic. "Speaking of dad, is he with you?"

"Always." Eric said holding up the urn with Derrick's ashes.

"God! Mom!" David moaned from outside. "Did you pack the entire kitchen? It's just an hour long journey."

"Come on honey, we need to leave now if you wanna reach before sunset." Sophie said. She was already seated at the drivers seat and buckled up ready to go.

It was exactly once year since Dana, Alice and Sophie had found the remains of Derrick in the incinerator of the Maxwell mansion.

Alice and Sophie were found with the rest of the prisoners in the secret tunnel under the Maze. Cristy and Helen were arrested and William was found innocent during the investigation. Cristy and Helen agreed to take the blame for Derrick's murder as long as William made sure that the little girl found her family and that Dana's baby was safe.

True to his word, William took care of Dana and her family. Although he never had the nerve to tell them the truth, he vowed to spend the rest of his life hiding in the shadows and keeping an eye on them. He had to make sure that family did not have to suffer anymore.

Dana had her child and named him after her father. She blamed herself for the trouble her family went through and skipped college until she could fix the damages she caused.

With the arrival of baby Derrick, her mothers, David and even Eric (even though he doesn't like the name) seems to have a good distraction. Now Dana is taking life more seriously and applied to the best colleges.

Kenny Jenkins is now dating Dana. He has been promoted after the Lanchester investigative breakthrough and is assigned the lead investigator in his team.

Although all scars did not heal completely. They were on the right path ..... finally.....

What about Lanchester?

The town was all over the news for several weeks until it went back to being a dusty old town with nothing interesting. The corn wall maze had been shutdown and taken apart. The Maxwell mansion has been taped as an active crime scene because they are still discovering secret rooms and traces of new victims. No bodies have been found, such was the manner of their disposal.