Chapter 3 #3
“I love the floor in this room. And you’re right, it would be harder to keep clean with people going in and out of it all the time.
I heard from one of the workers that two of the rooms are finished.
It won’t be long, and you’ll be able to start seeing patients soon. I bet you can’t wait to get started.”
The two of them talked about his schedule when working, and she told him that she was going to have to get herself something to do. He suggested the foundation a couple of days a week, which is what he worked, and they could perhaps work the same schedule.
“All I do is answer the phone and take notes on why they’ve called.
Then, after they have the forms filled out to get some money, there is a big criterion for them to get it so that we’re not just giving money away, we as a family take a vote or sort of on who will receive funding.
” She said she could do that. “Good. I’ll talk to my brothers and get you put on the schedule.
It’s not that hard. No one can enter the building with ill will in their heart. We learned that the hard way.”
On the first day they were to open, someone came with enough firepower to take out everyone in the building, including the people who had been waiting in line to receive help.
If not for the fast thinking of one of the sisters-in-law, Bailee, Denver would have been dead and several hundred other people as well.
The man had been off his medication, and no one was checking on him to make sure that he was all right. Instead of him taking out the entire building of people, he was the only one who had died, and it had been sad for Bailee to have had to kill him. But it was him or everyone there.
After getting dressed up, they decided to go to dinner tonight.
When they came home, he had plans for his little wife, and he wasn’t going to be disappointed in her at all.
How could he be when he loved her with every fiber of his being?
As soon as he called Jack and got permission to use the table that he had there for when family came in, they made their way there to have some comfort food.
The fried chicken was the best he’d ever eaten, and he felt like he could eat an entire platter all to himself.
He was glad that the food was served family style.
That way, he could have as much food as he wanted without having to wait for a second plate of food.
Jack had been using the recipes that they’d all grown up with.
Grannie, the best person in the world who had raised them, had been taking care of them since he was about three years old.
She was the only mother figure that he’d ever known and felt like she was the best role model that he’d ever had.
He didn’t know what he was going to do when she passed on.
She and grandda had been the glue that held them all together when things had gotten bad back in Texas.
Which wasn’t all that often, but enough that he never went without if he had the money for it.
Also, it taught him how to save money when he had it so that when a rainy day came along, he would be prepared for it.
He thought that was why he was so good at investing for his future, because of his grandparents.
After dinner, they walked home. It was a lovely night, and they were just full enough that they needed a nap.
He’d been lying down for the last couple of days to take a little nap, and it had done him a world of good.
Just today, he’d laid down for an hour and got up so refreshed that he was able to not just put his desk together with the chair but also some of the cabinets in his office that he was going to keep his notes in.
They were in the kitchen when he realized that all the cabinets had arrived.
“I bet they have them in tomorrow. The floor looks good now that it’s been sanded, don’t you think?
” She said it was hard to tell with all the stuff laying around, but she thought she’d love it when it was cleaned up.
“I think you had a wonderful idea in just sanding it down instead of replacing it. I think that the rest of the floors will be just as good-looking when they’re finished. ”
“How did they get to this point so fast, I wonder. I mean, it’s only been a couple of weeks since they started, and they’re already putting in the cabinets.
” He told her what Parker had said to him when he’d asked too.
“So they’re all faeries that are working on the house and the outbuilding.
I never would have guessed that. I guess they’d have enough magic that they could do just about anything they wanted quickly. ”
“When no one is around, they use their considerable magic to get things done that normally would have taken days. That’s why I’ve been staying out of the rooms that they’re working on.
Someone has already started working on the bedrooms upstairs, so that they’ll be finished soon, too.
” She asked him about the master bedroom.
“I’m going to have Parker come over and explain what she meant about finding some kind of treasure.
It might be something that gets destroyed while the room is being redone, and I don’t want that.
She said she’d come over tomorrow afternoon to show us.
She said that she’d told us too much when she’d been talking to you and wants to make up for it. ”
“Good. That’ll take a load off my mind. I’d like to go through the room and get rid of some of the things that grandda left behind, but like you said, I’m afraid of destroying something that is valuable.
Or tossing it out. For all I know, it could be one of the million lottery tickets that she’s saved over the years.
I thought about going through them. I did notice that one or two of them are worth some money, but I don’t think they all are.
At least I don’t think so.” He asked if some of them expired.
“They do. I had to look that up myself. You have about a year after the game ticket has expired before you can’t cash it out.
Grannie’s been gone for about two years now, so unless pop-pop is doing the same thing, then I’m doubting that it’s in the tickets. ”
“Whatever it is, I hope that we can use it without causing any trouble. I’m thinking that if we do get a windfall, your family is going to expect it coming to them.
” She said she’d not thought of that, but he was right.
“We’ll have to think of a way so that they don’t find out.
I’m all for that. I mean, we are getting the house done, and that’s taking about all our funds, but what do we tell him if we suddenly have a great deal of money? ”
“Nothing. The less he knows, the better. And perhaps with all the shit he’s done in the last year or so, they’ll all spend some time in jail where they should be anyway.
Isn’t there some kind of law that says that you can’t steal someone’s Social Security check?
If not, then there should be one. Pop-pop has to fight them every month for him to be able to pay his bills.
Not to mention knocking him around like he’s not related to them. ”
“I’ll ask Ivy or Hudson. You’ve met them, haven’t you?
” She said that she had. “Good. Hudson is the stay-at-home dad right now, and Ivy works for the foundation. She’s really good.
They both are, so we keep on top of things like that in the event something comes back to bite us in the ass.
She is the one who went over my contract with the group that I worked with.
She told me not to sign, but I was desperate for a job and signed it anyway.
I’m so glad that I got them out of my hair. ”
They talked about all kinds of things as they toured the house.
It really was coming along nicely, and he could see them moving in sometime soon.
More than likely in the next month or so.
As soon as they started back to the house, he decided that he was going to prove those other men wrong about Molly and give her the best night of sex that he could.
She was his everything, and he was going to prove it to her.