“I really appreciate you all coming to help me clean,” Barb told the group of us that included Dana and her mother Chloe, Mel’s mother Faye and me, my mom and my aunt. “It’s a disaster in here after the gang takeover but, thanks to Mel and her team, at least it’s still standing. Mess we can deal with. Rubble, not so much.”
“At least you’re in good spirits about it,” Chloe Rossi replied to her. “What do you want us to do?” Barb started telling our little group about the most pressing tasks. While she did that, I sort of edged away from my mom and more toward her, so I could try and get a private word with her.
My mom was having one of her better days, but she still wasn’t very mobile. I was off for the day though and she wanted to spend it with me so here we were. When she was finally don
