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“I couldn’t make heads nor tails out of them either.It wasn’t until Carrie suggested that I get someone else to look them over that I thought of you.Why they handed them over to me in the first place is something that I should have asked about.By the way, what are your planstonight?I have some leap things I have to go over, and I’d like to have your opinion on them.”He told him that he had plans with his mate.“Good for you guys.Carrie and I had plans, but this came up.I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew here.It’s taking a lot of work to be a leap leader and have a successful business.”

They talked for a bit more, and he was able to talk his brother into dropping the leap business for now and to go have fun with his mate.The business, he told him, would be there in the morning, but his mate might not be in the mood later.While he wasn’t going to take having Danny in the family the way that Sandy did, just knowing that something could come up between mates made him want to spend all the time he could with her.Even being immortal, other things could be coming up that would stall them from being together.

At five o’clock, he was putting the things away that he’d been working on.The blueprints werestill on the side of his desk.He’d not bothered with them anymore.He did reach out today to find someone who could look them over.The only person that others told him to ask was his own mate.She’d know right away if the prints were wrong or not.

Sunny, Nash’s mate, joined him on his walk home.She told him that she had some news for him and decided that this was the best way to give it to him.Face to face.He wasn’t sure if he liked that idea or not.

“There was no smoke in their lungs.”He didn’t need to ask who she was talking about when she told him that.“They were poisoned and didn’t feel a thing with the fire raging around them.I thought perhaps you could tell Rogen, and she’d know the best way to tell her family.It’s going to be hard on them either way, but I think Belinda might feel a bit better about them not burning up in a fire.At least I know that I would.”

He told her what Sandy had been dealing with.“She had it in her head that it was all her fault that her brother was murdered.I tried to convince her that it could have happened to any family.”Sunny said she didn’t know if she’d feel any different about him being in the family.“I hope that I helped her at least a little.She was beating herself up over this, and it hurt me.”

“She is going to see Danny today, I heard.”Weston told her that was where she’d been headed when she left his office.Then he told her that Jameson was going with her.“Good.You know, I can’t wait for him to find his mate.The man deserves something special for all the crap he’s been through since passing the board.I love the fact that he’s going to be helping with the leap, too.He’ll be good at that.”

“He told me when I talked to him the other day that he was enjoying himself.I didn’t tell him that it was because he was new at it.I want him to think he’s having fun for as long as he can.”Sunny asked him if he was only going to work for the family and for the leap.“I believe so.He’s been going over the rules and regulations for the leap for most of his life.He’ll know more about them than anyone would by now.Even Archie.”

“I know that Archie depends on him a great deal.I do as well for a couple of things that I have going on.He’s a good person to have around.”Weston agreed.“I have to get home.I have some things going on there that will need my attention that my mom has me looking into.A faerie’s life is never dull, I have to admit.”

When she left him, he entered his home.It was quiet now.The faeries that lived in his home were off in the gardens with Rogen.As soon as he changed his clothing and joined her in the yard, she asked him what had happened.Telling her what he’d heard from Sunny had her crying too.

“Those poor kids.They were the best, you know?”He said that he wished that he’d met them all.“Benson would have loved you.Hell, he loved everyone.Not so much Danny, but he tolerated him a good deal more than the rest of us did.That’s why what happened bothers me so much.Why did he target my brother?”

“This is what I think, and I’m more than likely wrong, but your brother would have been distracted with the kids.I know that Belinda has mentioned to me how much they were into things such as sports and activities.And he was a stay-at-home dad, too.I’m betting that keeping up with those things and Danny being family meant that he wasn’t nearly as up on watching him as you guys did.”She told him that he could be right.“Did he have a lot of trust with the other man?I mean, would he have been in his home without supervision?”

“If you mean did we have access to each other’s homes, then you’d be right in that.I know that I still have a key to Benson’s home even though it’s no longer there.And it’s doubtful to me that Danny ever knocked when he was over.Just go into the house like we did one another.”Weston said that he couldn’t remember the last time he was at one of his brothers’ homes when they weren’t there.“Not for us.If we wanted to talk to one of the others, we’d just go into their homes and wait for them.Even going so far as to wash up a few dishes or throw a load of clothes in the washer.We were, at least back then, one big happy family.Or so I thought.”

They talked a bit more while she pulled weeds from the garden.There weren’t all that many; thefaeries had done most of the work, but she’d been outside, and the little people decided to allow her to do some of the work as well.But they would never be that far away if she changed her mind about helping.

By dinner time, she’d called her family to come to the house.They had to know what the meeting was about, yet they all showed up.Sandy looked better than she had when he’d seen her this afternoon, and he was happy about that.He had a feeling, however, that things were about to go from bad to worst.He hated this news for his new family and was going to be there for them all if they needed him to be.

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Danny thought about what Sandy had told him.She’d been snipping at him all the time she’d been visiting him, and he didn’t like it.Nor did he care for the fact that she brought herself an attorney.He didn’t have one yet, and she was having one like she was the one in trouble.

“There are a few things that I’m going to make you aware of.The first one is that I’m not paying for you an attorney.”He’d not even asked her to do that, and she had cut him off before he could say a word.“I’m not going to be paying for a damned thing for you.No matter what you have to say.Also, I’m happy to announce that I’ve been granted a divorce from you.The judge fast-tracked it for me because of what you’ve done to my family.”

“They were my family, too, you know.And just so you know, I won’t acknowledge you divorcing me unless you have to pay me support.If you had given me children like I wanted, then you’d be paying me more.”She said she wasn’t doing that either.“Why the hell not?You make enough money to support us both, and I have needs.”

“What kind of needs do you have in a jail cell?You don’t have a television that I can see, so there are no gaming systems.There isn’t a fridge, so no beer of any kind.So, there is nothing that I can think of.Besides, as I said, I’m not giving you shit.You murdered my brother and his kids.”He waved her off.“What’s that supposed to mean?Did you or did you not kill them for insurance money?”

That was old news.She should have been more forthcoming with some money, and he might not have had to resort to killing them, and he told her that.Although he had to admit that he had enjoyed it.Knowing something that she didn’t had been a thrill to him.Then, when the insurance policy had come through, it got him to thinking about killing off the rest of them.It sure was a big payday for him.

He’d only admit this to himself, but he had hated killing the kids.Besides, they were all right, he supposed.But they were kids.However, in order to make it look like the house just caught on fire, he had to do it.Something that he knew very little about.

Sandy should have given him kids.The more, the better.It would have been fun for him to have one of those food cards so that he could get something from the grocery store anytime he wanted and not have to beg Sandy for money all the time.She also kept harping on him to get a job.Like he was going to do that.He had shit to do, and working a job was going to interfere with that time.His ambition was to be a gamer with lots of followers online.

However, it was the things that she said to him today that pissed him off.Not just the divorce, which was hard enough for him to swallow, but that she hoped he went to prison for the rest of his natural life.And that she’d not think about him once while he was gone.He didn’t believe that for a minute.He’d killed off her brother.Surely, she would think of him from time to time.Stupid woman.

Sandy was far from stupid, he knew.She and that damned sister of hers had gotten into construction and had made a big deal of it.They didn’t share their good fortune with him, but they’d been about to do so in a different way.Insurance policies.

He’d been able to keep up with the payments, too, when she’d leave her purse just lying around.There were a lot of them that he’d taken out, too.Not just on her family but also on some of the old people around the neighborhood as well.Anyone that was older than dirt was someone that he’d make a bit of money off of.

Then there was that damned attorney.He just knew that the man was a sissy boy, as his daddy used to call queers.There was no way that a man looking that good and wearing suits like he didwasn’t a sissy boy.Of course, he thought all men better looking than him was a sissy boy.Not that he thought there were very many good-looking men out there who were better-looking than he was.But this guy was way too nice-looking not to be.

Danny knew that he had shortcomings.A lot of them.He was only in his late twenties, and he thought and—wait, he was thirty-three…when the hell did that happen?Anyways, he told himself that if anyone asked, he was only going to be in his late twenties.But he was bald as a ball.Christ, it was like he woke up one day, and all his hair was gone.He didn’t even have any side hair, either.Just nothing up top of his head to even comb over.

He’d like to think that he made up for it in his dick.But he didn’t even do that.One night when Sandy had been mad at him, she’d told him that he had a pencil dick.It had taken him a week of wondering what she’d meant by that to figure out an answer as to what she was calling him.When he did, he hit her for the first time.

After that, he’d hit her anytime she pissed him off.Which was, by his estimations, a great deal.She was forever putting him down, telling him that he was a lazy fuck and that he needed to get out and find himself a job.Also, she told him about them having kids.

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