C H A P T E R T W E N T Y - S I X T H E T R I P P T. Ⅰ WHEN EVERYTHING STARTED to go perfectly, I should've known s**t was going go downhill fast. Addison started school, Xena started sleeping through night, so it only took one of us at a time to take care of her during the weekdays. Laylani started a new line for her shop that allowed her to expand to the city, nearly tripling profits. I cinched a two trillion dollar deal that would allow me to take off work until Xena was twenty and heading to college. We had date set for the wedding, Laylani and I's relationship was perfect, we had s*x nearly every night, we went on weekends dates, and Sloan's grandfather finally croaked. The cards were all in a line, everything was just falling together perfectly. Nothing is perfect. Nothing

