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I didn’t handle it; the trip back took an hour longer, and by the time I shuffled into my dreary apartment it was past ten. The peeling wallpaper and cockroaches welcomed me home, and I wondered if I’d been thinking when I refused his offer to stay at that fancy, albeit creepy, house.
“Too late now…” I muttered to myself.
I plopped down in my dusty old recliner and dialed the phone number to the diner to call in my vacation for the next week. Sheila answered. “Dan’s Delicious Diner. How can I help you?”
I don’t know how Dan hadn’t been sued for false advertising; maybe he’d invited his critics over for some of his Lasagna Surprise and murdered them that way. “Hi, Sheila, it’s Trixie. How did everything go today?”
I pulled my ear away from the phone when she let out a squeal of
