“We done with this now?” Tucker put it back in the envelope. “I’ll write and thank your sister later on. Let’s get outta here. It’s too nice to be indoors.”
They headed over to Animalistic. “C’mon,” Tucker said. “I want to show ya something.” He had packed a picnic once he’d gone into the bedroom to dress, even though Roy had begged him not to. Olivia, Sam, Paul and Penny, and Zeb and Bunny were out on the portico where they had been when Chad had first met them, enjoying the unusually warm day, possibly the last, before they’d all be put away until spring.
Tucker was wearing shorts and shoes. Chad was in shorts and a plain white t-shirt, while Roy had started in jeans and a short-sleeved Hawaiian button-down he’d unbuttoned on the way over, and took off once they set foot on grass. Roy
