CHAPTER 12 There were the usual problems with real estate agents, lawyers and banks lending money but finally Jessica and her young family shifted into their newly purchased Wellington home. Stacey had stuck by her promise to let her be next-of-kin for all Brendon's assets in Auckland. The house up there sold for almost two hundred thousand dollars more than her similar home in Wellington. This, therefore meant that she had to service a smaller mortgage and with her new position at Lexington Avenue School, she could easily afford it. The 1980s vintage house was within a few blocks of the school and only a kilometre from Stacey's in the opposite direction, had a garage, something often lacking in the Wellington hilly suburbs and was only two blocks from a small suburban shopping area and