Chapter Twenty-One
Naomi laughed when she turned and caught Nell’s expression.
“You don’t love the mint-green paint?” she asked. “Not what you were expecting?”
“Please tell me that’s on the list of things to change.” They’d driven out to the triplex that Naomi had bought not far from Wildlife Ridge. The one she’d gone to look at the day Aaron had driven Janelle and Grandma to the museum and airport. In some ways that seemed so long ago, considering how much her life had changed.
The building was not in the greatest neighborhood, but not so bad that Nell had been worried as they’d driven in.
“I’ll tell you about the neighborhood when we’re back in the car, but here comes Brandon, my contractor.” Naomi gestured to a man getting out of a pickup truck that had just pulled into the drivew
