Chapter 14Well, here’s where we’re gonna jump ahead some. Back into the nitty gritty of all this mess. See, many months went by after that day. After we all grabbed our suitcases and beat a hasty retreat. Because if there’s one thing Granny always told me, it was never to tempt fate. And we’d been at least teasing with it pretty badly up until then, tickling at its sides, and it was growing mighty pissed at us.
I closed up the mansion, just temporarily, mind you, and fired Roy. Goodbye to bad rubbish, I figured. Though I couldn’t, for some reason, track down Betty. Her I left a note for. And a check to help tide her over until we returned, despite what she’d done.
We knew where Beau was now, so Granny’s lawyer was able to fill him in on his inheritance. I’d not spoken with him since that
