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Randy’s Arcade
November 7
7:30 p.m.
Ava sat in Randy’s Arcade, with Elsa’s mother, Patty, on one side, and Sadie’s mother, Anita, on the other. They’d gathered at Randy’s for Elsa’s bridal shower, and the more time she spent in the large building, the more she loved it. Which meant her father would have hated it.
“Imagine the germs, Ava,” Leo King would try to reason. “It’s not a fitting place for a King.”
But there was something about the old, multiple-story home-turned-into-an entertainment-center that she loved.
The first floor had everything from pinball machines to the latest combat video games. A second floor housed multiple pool tables, and the top offered dining and dancing. And in the center of it all, a grand staircase led from one floor to another.
But the longer she
