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“Then what happens?”
“You said you wanted it demolished.”
“With her in it? Can they do it with her inside?”
“Geez.” I pulled her up from the closed toilet seat where she was sitting. “No, they’ll give her time to leave, but she won’t be able to take anything with her unless an approved exterminator cleans it first; that’ll take time. By the way, you know your Dad is going to be billed for the demolition, right?”
“Serves him right. But can we pay extra to have them….”
“No, murder is off the books, especially now that you’ve got the city involved.” She seemed really put out by that, and I had to wonder.
“Dad’s going home tomorrow, I wanted it gone by then.”
“I know, but it’ll take a few days. They do have neighbors, and these things take time.” The truth is it’ll only take a few more days, but that was the best my people could do. It usually takes much longer than that, but I don’t think I’ll be getting any thanks from this one for all my hard work.
We went back to join the others, and she acted like nothing happened. I almost felt sorry for her Dad, knowing what he was going back to. The rest of the day was uneventful until it was time to go back to land and the going away dinner we had planned for her family’s last night.
Her Dad seemed kind of nervous, and I wondered if he’d caught wind somehow but I was soon to learn different. I’m not sure why they chose the night before we were set to go away to spring this on her, but I guess they had their reasons.
We were all sitting around the dining room table back at my place, having our after-dinner drinks, when her parents announced that they had something to tell her. I kind of knew what was coming, but she didn’t seem to have a clue.
I’m not sure what her Mom told her, if anything, while we were out to sea or if she even mentioned knowing that they had slept together since no one else mentioned it, but I wish that was all he was about to say.
“Alyssa, your Mom and I have something to say.”
“What? That you spent the night together?”
“How did you…. Never mind, no, it’s not that. Well, kind of. Your Mom and I are getting back together.”
No one said anything for the longest of seconds, and from the looks of it, her brothers didn’t seem too surprised, although the eldest looked worried.
“Aren’t you married?”
“Not for long. I’ve already had the divorce papers drawn up. There’s something else.” He looked at his ex-wife as if seeking help.
“What?”
“We’ve been kind of seeing each other.”
“You’ve what?”
“Um, I think you should take this into the study, I’ll leave you guys alone.”
“No, stay. I wanna hear this. How long?” She gripped my hand to keep me in place, and I could feel the tremble in hers.
I thought this was what she wanted, but from the way she was acting, I couldn’t be sure. “Ten years, give or take.”
“What did you say?”
“Now, Alyssa.” That was her brother Cam, who was almost out of his seat. What the hell were they expecting to happen?
“Wait, did you say ten years?” I asked. Maybe I had heard wrong; I thought he said days
“You knew? All of you knew?” She looked around at her brothers, who were all nodding.
“Not that they were seeing each other, but that they were on speaking terms.”
“And no one thought to tell me.”
