“Pish! We all get grumpy.” Nana D guffawed after explaining that the wind chimes formerly hung at the Garibaldi house but had disappeared around the same time as Prudence. “Maybe Hiram dropped them off for you. What"s the good word on the other ding-a-ling you call a wife?”
“Francesca has been in court all week. I haven"t spoken to her.” I"d finished reading my brother"s report. His ultimate recommendation was not to file for formal custody of Emma until we had a sense of the California judicial system"s plan to penalize my wife. Hampton suggested it would be better to ignore Francesca while she wasn"t requesting anything unreasonable or out of the ordinary.
“You"ve got some awful taste in women, brilliant one.”
“Let"s switch topics. If you keep pestering me, I might have to tell Mom th
