Chapter 5 - Real Estate
Thursday Evening
Morelville, Ohio
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MEL RUBBED HER STOMACH and looked at her wife. “That was good babe. You keep cooking like that and I’m going to get fat.”
“I can’t take all the credit. Hannah got everything started before she went to class. I just finished it up once you called and said you were on your way.”
Mel pulled a grimace.
“Long day, huh?” Dana touched her wife’s shoulder as she stood up.
“To say the least.”
“Horace?”
“No. Probably not. He has an alibi for most of the morning.” She felt instantly guilty for lying to Dana and looked away from her.
Dana knew better. “Owen was conscious, barely but conscious, when I found him that afternoon, remember? The blow he took could have happened thirty seconds before I showed up, for all w
