After more bagels and coffee, Kyle got ready to leave for work. Kiri and Jenna followed him to the door.
“I’ll see you girls tonight!” Kyle leaned down to hug them with a tickle in their ribs.
“We want to see the turkey on the roof!” Kiri giggled.
“First thing when I get home.”
When Kyle was gone, Patrick got the girls reading. He’d done one thing right with them at least, encourage reading. They took it so seriously it made him laugh, their cute little faces pointed at the page. Without his mother-in-law there, the girls didn’t notice the absence of TV.
Once they were lost in their stories, Patrick called Nine Dragons and asked for Leung. A voice he didn’t recognize asked him who he was. He tried to identify the voice. It was not a smooth welcoming tone in polite Japanese keigo. He
