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Emery
54 days since meeting Lisa
Emery liked a good pizza buffet as much as the next man, but it was Lisa’s surprise arrival with Jake’s family that made the drive out worthwhile.
And she’d sat down beside him. Spontaneously. He could feel her energy in the air even when neither one of them was participating in the conversation around them.
Singer shook his head, absently wiping tomato sauce off Miles’s chin. “So, short of matricide, I don’t know what we’ll do with her.”
“Have we ruled out matricide?” Lisa asked.
He shot her a look. Then it softened. “Well. Not completely.”
Carey stood up and brushed crumbs from his hands back over his plate. “We can’t help you with that, I don’t think. But we did talk about something else.” He glanced at Alice, who smiled up at him. “Hell, Al.
