It had taken some talking on Reynaud’s part, but Burke had finally agreed that Antoine’s idea had merit.
“Not in the Quarter,” Burke said as he and Reynaud pored over real estate listings. “Or anywhere close to mine. We don’t want to walk by either of our old places and wonder if moving was the best idea.”
“Very true,” Reynaud replied. He tapped a picture. “This one’s not bad.”
“Too close to the neighbors,” Burke pointed out with some validity as there was only a driveway separating the houses on one side, and a narrow lawn with a couple of trees on the other.
Reynaud kept scrolling. “This?”
“Lovely woodwork, and great floors, but the bathrooms? I bet they were real rooms when the house was built, and there was an outdoor privy. So someone decided to turn the two smallest ones into ba
