I ate breakfast alone outside, seeing as Benny ate breakfast inside, with Matilda, and Manny couldn’t eat with the family, namely me. It was an uncomfortable situation all the way around. Odd, seeing as I was sitting in a remarkably comfortable outdoor recliner at the time.
I stared out at the ocean in the distance. I breathed in. I breathed out. Maximillian suddenly appeared at my side. Was the lawyer also a magician?
I jumped.
“Sorry, sir,” he said.
“Ted,” I replied. “You’re older than me. Sounds strange.”
Didn’t sound strange when Manny said it, but that was during much different circumstances. Much, much. I wondered if Maximillian had a hairy asshole, too? “Are you here to join me for breakfast?”
He shook his head. “I saw you sitting alone out here. Everything okay?”
He seemed c
