Chapter 34: Uncle Eddy
Chapter 34
Uncle Eddy
I hung up with Connors, more puzzled than when Lonny had left. What the hell is this man doing? His daughter was being held hostage and he was…what? Running around to corner stores? Why did he go? What did he do?
I thought about asking Lucia again but decided against it. She would blindly support her husband no matter what. She didn’t see, or refused to see, his faults. She was a lot like Mary, who never saw my faults. She never complained or griped, even when we had no money.
God, I miss her.
Some nights I dreamed of cloning Mary. I’d bring her back just as she was. Wouldn’t change a thing. Not her lazy eye or the extra twenty pounds she always complained about.
I was brought out of my contemplation by the thought of the Uncle Eddy refer
