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Wrapped in the car’s warmth, Fina handed over the green tissue packet to Ruby. Her eyes lit up as she bit into the caramel. Then she folded the paper over the remaining chocolate.
“Where does your self-restraint come from?” Fina asked. “I don’t know how you do it.”
“It’s a habit I acquired as a child,” Ruby said. “I began to do it to annoy Wendell and the habit took hold.”
Fina chuckled. “I can imagine that must have driven your brother mad.”
The driver, Horsley, peered at Ruby and Fina in the rear-view mirror as if they were mad as a bag of ferrets. This would normally bother Fina, but it didn’t today. There were too many other, more important, things to worry about. Her stomach tightened as she imagined how her aunt would react to Ruby and Pixley.
“We can hardly arrive without a
