Chapter 9
Friday afternoon, two weeks after they’d spoken with Mrs. Sullivan, her husband came by the agency to tell Derek he wouldn’t need his services anymore, and why.
“I can’t say I’m happy about things, but I’m trying to accept them,” he’d said. “We love each other, which helps, I suppose.”
Derek agreed that it did and gave him his bill, which he paid on the spot before thanking him again and leaving.
In the interim everything had gone on as usual, both at work and at home. Derek had taken on several more jobs while Joe watched the office. “Something I couldn’t have done without you around,” he told Joe more than once.
At home, they did chores on Saturday, which was their usual routine now, went to a movie one Sunday, and played tourist on the next one as Derek showed Joe parts o
