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“You can add Bill’s family to the list as well,” Silvia says as she reenters the room and hands my phone back to me. “I just got a call from Bill’s daughter, Aileen, and she claims to be responsible for his suicide. She wants to talk to you,” she says, handing Trey her phone.
“Hello?” Trey says, putting the phone up to his ear.
“Oh, sorry, I had to hang up in order to finish up with Ray. I told her you would call her back,” Silvia explains. “I just thought you could take her number off my call list.”
“Okay.” Trey goes to her recent calls and sends the contact to his phone. “Why would she be responsible? Becky, the receptionist, told me that Bill and Tommy had a big fight this morning and that Bill stormed out afterward,” he replies with a puzzled look.
“I have no idea,” Silvia replies with a shrug. “I was having a hard time understanding her. She was really upset.”
Trey turns toward me, giving me a look of concern before coming over to me and slips his arm around my waist. “Are you okay?” he asks with a sincere look of compassion in his eyes.
“I’m nervous as hell, but I can handle it,” I lean forward and kiss his lips. “Are you okay?” I ask in return.
“Not really, but I think I’ll feel a little better once we have some protection,” he says with a smirk. “I’m going to see if the family room is empty,” he adds, obviously wanting a little space and privacy.
“I’ll stay here with Tyler and your mom,” I tell him, knowing that he wasn’t happy to find him alone with Tommy earlier. “Where did Vanessa go?”
“She was talking to Tommy when I saw her last,” Silvia says shaking her head.
“Tommy seems like a nice guy,” Tyler says with a smile.
“I think I like this version of you,” Trey tells him with a chuckle before proceeding out into the hallway.
“You remind me of when you were a little boy,” Silvia tells him as we both smile at Tyler while trying to suppress our giggles. He looks like a bright-eyed child on Christmas day after opening his favorite present. Most of us would probably benefit from having our memories wiped out. It might be nice to dispose of all the mental baggage and move forward with a clean slate. It’s strange how he seems to still have knowledge of the world and what is going on, but no emotional memories. This is crazy stuff.
“I told your dad to wait a few days before coming to town,” she says redirecting her attention toward me. “Since Trey thinks we all need protection, it’s no use bringing anyone else into harms way.”
“I agree.” I nod and shoot her a smile. “I know he wants to be here to protect us, but he’s not exactly qualified. The only thing I’ve seen him shoot is a skunk and that didn’t end well.” I suppress a giggle, thinking about how Mom made him strip down to his underwear before coming in the house.
“I’m going to have to ask him about that,” she snickers. “It’s funny he never mentioned it.”
“It wasn’t exactly one of his prouder moments,” I reply, shaking my head as the whole incident replays in my head.
Trey
My immediate focus is to get ahold of Bill’s daughter, Aileen, to find out what she was talking about. But when I reach the family room I find Vanessa sitting alone on the couch. She looks incredibly tired and distant.
“What did Tommy have to say?” I ask, grabbing a spot at the opposite end of the couch.
“He was trying to convince me that Tyler’s drug overdose wasn’t his doing,” she says coldly. “He keeps blaming everything on your dad’s fiancée, Carly, but I don’t see how that makes any sense. Part of me wanted to believe that Tommy still cared about me, but deep down I know he just uses people.”
“You’ve got that right,” I reply, thinking back Monaco. “He takes what he needs from people and then leaves them behind. Literally. Do you realize he brought Liv to Monaco and then left her there?”
“Have you all been with Liv?” she fumes. “What is it about her?” She goes right past the fact that Tommy left her behind and to the more pressing concern of why men are attracted to Liv.
“Liv is beautiful, like you and at first she seems like a lot of fun,” I explain. “After a while though, it becomes painfully obvious that she is a gigantic pain in the ass.” I close my eyes and shake my head, thinking about all the crap that I had put up with.
“So, you still think I’m beautiful? I can barely fit in my clothes,” she replies, once again focusing on herself.
