Chapter 6 #3
He was laughing when she left him there with a kiss to his chin.
He was glad that she’d been able to get him out of his mood.
It might well have hurt someone’s feelings when they had to talk to him like he was.
He was just stepping into the first patient’s room when it occurred to him what she’d said.
She wanted to chase him around the office. Did that mean…?
For the rest of the day, he was busy enough that he didn’t get to think about what she meant.
But when he did, he was thrilled that she’d come in and talked to him about it.
Being chased around his office wouldn’t work out all that well on any day of the week, as he’d taken the door off his office when he first started seeing people.
He wanted there to never be a closed door when someone wanted to talk to him.
Now he was beginning to regret that move.
By the time he was ready for a break, it was lunchtime.
It was his turn to stay at the offices, just in case someone came in early to their after lunchtime appointment, but he didn’t mind.
He’d had his lunch brought to him in the form of a large salad with chicken on it and was content to sit in his office and eat it.
When the others came back, he went to the bathroom and washed up before he was ready to begin his day again.
Kendrick did love his job and was glad that he was enjoying it enough that he wasn’t bored with it.
By three o’clock, he was ready to call it a day, but he still had about three hours to go.
He’d gotten to tell one of his patients that they were going to have a baby and had been high on their happiness for the rest of the day.
When his last patient came into the office, he was caught up enough that he didn’t have to hurry through.
He loved ending on a good note like that and was happy that he’d had such a productive day, too.
Driving home, he was happy to remember that the movers were going to be moving the few things that they decided to take from the house with them.
The floors in the new house looked better than he thought they would, and he was glad that they’d had their bedroom have hardwood floors as well.
He loved the golden sheen that was there when the sun hit it just right and thought that if the floor got cold, they’d just pull out some slippers.
Yes, he was happy with the changes they’d made in the kitchen as well.
The cabinets and the walls had been painted a dark blue.
It was so dark in the room that it was difficult to feel comfortable in it.
Once the walls had been painted a bright while and the flooring a light color, he was happy to say that he thought it was perfect.
With the countertops being white with blue swirls through it, he thought they had the most perfect kitchen ever built.
He couldn’t wait to have a couple of meals cooked in the thing.
He’d had staff at their first home and was glad that they all decided to come with them to the new one.
He would have hired all new staff if not for Sharon loving them, and now he didn’t have to have someone come out and train them.
Things were going just as planned, and he couldn’t wait until they were staying full-time at the new home.
The beds had been put together and made up just yesterday.
All the rooms had been cleaned, and the carpets that were in the few rooms that they were in were vacuumed and ready to be used.
All they needed to do was move in with their clothing, and things would be done.
He’d never had such an easy move before.
He thought maybe Sharon had been right and this was going to be their forever home. He loved the sound of that, too.
Forever meant something so much more than it had before Sharon had come into his life.
He was thinking in terms of being together forever, like the fact that she was going to be by his side forever made him feel like life was worth living for him.
As soon as he got to the new house, he was going to put down roots—like trees and plants that would be there for them forever, too.
Kendrick was excited about everything going on today, all of a sudden, and was happy that Sharon was home when he got there.
Picking her up and swinging her around, he kissed her on the mouth before setting her back down on the floor.
“Well, aren’t you in a great mood. So much better than when you left.” He said it was because of her. “Thank you for that. I needed a pick-me-up today.”
“What’s wrong?” She told him how she’d spoken to her mother today about her father, and she said that he should be in jail forever. “I agree, but without more information, that’s not going to happen.”
“He has no income, and he lives in a nice apartment that he pays for in cash every month. That’s all she’s told me about, but I agree with her.
How is he supposed to be paying for this place without any income?
He doesn’t even get Social Security. He was denied that when he went to jail the first time for stealing checks and cashing them.
It seems to me that he’s back up to his old tricks. ”
“While I agree with you in that it sounds fishy, no one is going to put him in jail just because he’s paying his rent on time.
I’ll have Cass look into it—” She said that she’d already spoken to her.
“Good. One more thing I don’t have to do.
But if he is dealing underhandedly, then they’re going to have to catch him in the act rather than just saying that he’s up to something. Understand?”
“I do. I don’t like it, but I understand.” She pouted her lower lip, and he kissed it. “That was nice. Now all I have to do is figure out what he’s doing so that I can catch him at it, so that he goes to prison for the rest of his life. That sounds easy, don’t you think?”
“Not at all.” She growled at him, and he had to laugh.
It was such a wimpy growl that he couldn’t help but think of her as a small puppy trying to do it.
Not wanting to upset her more, he didn’t mention it.
“But you can bet that if there’s something out there, Cass will find it.
She’s good at getting to the dirt on things. ”
For the rest of the evening, they talked about what he could be doing to get money all the time.
They thought about everything from cashing checks again to running drugs, high-end things that would get him serving a lot of prison time.
Since neither of them was a lawyer, they couldn’t get past the few things that they’d seen on television, and that didn’t give them much to go on.
They’d just have to wait on Cass to see what she was able to unearth for them.