In the days that followed, Henry continued to spoil them with lavish breakfasts, dinners out, and what Henry liked to refer to as “wild, unplanned adventures” which none of his guests over five feet tall believed for a second were wild or unplanned. Mary came home the day after her fall, surprisingly chipper considering the hours she’d spent on the floor and the tests she’d endured afterwards. With the tension between Randy and Lyle broken, Lyle found himself actually enjoying the company of his family again.
Lyle sought out Arius twice more—the night following Mary’s accident and the day after that—but they didn’t end up naked on either visit. Instead, Arius talked. More often than not, Arius’s conversations escalated to a point that Lyle was uncomfortable and even, in some cases, distur
