Chapter Twenty-Seven Vacation by the numbers: six full days in Hawaii. Seven nights snuggling in bed with Gretel. Four surfing lessons for Petey. Six times Gretel sipped on a Mai Tai, then passed it off to him to finish. Twenty-six times the two of them snuck back to the hotel room for some “honeymoon time.” Five times Aimee offered to take Petey home to Connecticut with her. That, of course, was where he drew the line. Jason moving into town was one thing. Ten-year-old Petey was staying right where he was. By the time the three of them collapsed into their seats on the airplane heading home, they were sunburned, sand-blasted, and sick of the flavor coconut. Gretel curled her hand in Zander’s and rested her head on his shoulder. “Is it my imagination, or was that vacation more exhausti