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“No, stay home,” Marcus said to Charlotte over the phone. “Don’t come over here, and if any reporters call or show up, don’t talk to them. I love you.”
He hung up and pulled at his tie, loosening it, because it was beginning to choke him. He stood in his mom’s kitchen, which was now put back together, listening to the shower running, knowing his mom was taking a well-deserved long one. His siblings were in the living room with Jack, talking about the situation they were all in.
“So how’s everything at home?” Luke said, striding into the kitchen, where Marcus had gone to make a quick call, thinking he’d be talking to Alison, not Charlotte.
“Well, Charlotte’s home,” he said. “Seems that asshole Lonnie decided she had a conflict of interest and basically told her to go home and not com
