CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
(part six)
“Are you ready, Sandy?” Valerie giggled.
“I guess so.”
Valerie drove the excavator up onto the lawn. She moved the arm near the exterior of the house.
“Go ahead, Sandy,” Valerie said.
“What am I doing?”
“You’re demolishing your father’s house, the place you were so awfully hurt.” Valerie’s eyes were huge. For all of her actress ways, [...]

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CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
(part five)
Friday morning — 9 A.M.
Locust Street

“What are we doing here?” Sandy asked as Valerie turned onto her father’s street.
“You’ll see,” Valerie said.
Driving her ancient Mustang, Valerie stopped across the street from Sandy’s childhood home. A group of twenty or so men and women wearing Lipson Construction shirts and hardhats were standing around [...]

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CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
(part four)
“Sorry, I don’t really get it.”
“There’s always a ton of map work for the LC to do. The intelligence center makes a bundle on them, so they want her to work on them. It’s an easy excuse to tell brass. Plus brass has put priority on a couple areas of the world. Can’t [...]

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CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
(part three)
Friday morning — 7:00 A.M.
Honey had been up for a few hours. Steve had arrived early today to help her out of bed and through her morning routine. They worked through her morning stretches and body weight exercises. Afterwards, he helped her shower.
She could now manage getting dressed by herself. Dressing herself was [...]

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CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
(part two)
“You’re exhausted, Jill,” he whispered. “You need to care for yourself or you’ll get sick too.”
“I don’t have time! When do I have time?”
“You’re not alone anymore. Every little thing doesn’t rest on your shoulders. I’m here. I can take Katy to work with me if I need to. Delphie said she’d stay [...]

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CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
(part one)
Friday morning — 5:21 A.M.
The Castle

“She’s still really sick,” Jill whispered to Jacob. She reached down to feel her sleeping baby’s face. “Except for the bee stings, she’s never been sick like this. Blane gave her an acupuncture treatment yesterday but she still hasn’t kicked it. She should be in her own [...]

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