Page 170 of The Best Shot

Tabby: thank GOD

Tabby: we can finally retire the Hale custody schedule

Yasmine: The what?

Ava: Ignore her.

Tabby: maybe we can finally get our men back now

Yasmine: ????

Annie: Hale has had Nico and Grant doing construction like indentured servants

Ava: He been working them like they on payroll.

Tabby: every weekend

Tabby: every SINGLE weekend

Annie: Nico said he stopped answering texts unless Hale specified whether tools were involved

Yasmine: He fixing up the house???

Ava:

Tabby: you didn’t hear it from us

Annie: apparently it’s a surprise

Tabby: he wanted the major updates done before you got back. plumbing. wiring

Ava: Also, for the record. Mission accomplished.

Yasmine: What mission.

Ava: Operation Fix Hale’s Lonely Ass.

Ava: I take full credit.

Annie: HOW?????

Annie: all your picks were horrible

Tabby: Dr. Kimball alone should disqualify you

Ava: Still on that?

Tabby: the woman didn’t read fiction, Ava

Ava: Alright, alright.

Ava: I take 75%.

Yasmine: You take zero.

Ava: 25%.

Annie: generous self-assessment