New Direction

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(230 0 0 1)><em><u>New Direction</u></em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Alex walked to the spot on the river front.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She stopped and looked across the river at Covington.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em> She remembered that dark early morning that she and Trey had investigated their first case.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She had been as green at being a detective that she could have been. </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She had graduated from law school.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em> Tried her hand as a lawyer in her mother's law firm.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She quit and accepted a job as a deputy in a small town. </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>The work and environment fit what she wanted to do. </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Then her boss had suggested that she interview for a role in the Cincinnati detective unit.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>The Black Chief of detectives doing the recruiting made her an offer.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She moved to Cincinnati and as a lead detective in his department. </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>No one would be a partner.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>The Chief found her a war hero partner.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>He turned out to be an ideal partner to her.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>When she found Aurea on her front porch the world changed.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>The New replaced what was !</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Yet the Old shaped the New in the most rewarding Ways !! </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She had the ability to start a new business.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She bought the marina where her father kept the fishing boat that the two of them had spent many hours in.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Aurea loved her new grandparents.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Matt her partner was excited about running the marina.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Alex knew that she had made the right decision.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>She was ready for the new direction that her life was taking her.</em></p>