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“I said ‘there’s.’ It could mean there was a guy.”
“If he were a was, you wouldn’t have brought it up.”
“I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know if I’ll ever see him again. I’ll see him, of course, Razor works out of his house here almost exclusively now. But that doesn’t mean I’ll see him.”
“Let me get this straight, you aren’t sure you’re going to see him.” Poppy rolled her eyes like Saylor had earlier.
“Shut up.”
“M-a-a-a-m-a, that’s a bad word. You owe me a dollar,” shouted Sierra from the bedroom.
“She heard shut up and not fuck?” whispered Poppy.
“Do you want to go out for coffee?” Saylor asked, looking at the coffee pot that she hadn’t turned on yet.
“A cocktail sounds better at this point.”
“Agreed.”
THEY TOOK the trail that ran along the ocean. It began ten miles north of Saylor’s house and went all the way through the downtown district and another ten miles south. It was one of Saylor’s favorite things about being able to live right on the coast. It was definitely something she wouldn’t have been able to afford if her brother hadn’t bought the duplex for her and her mom. She sure as hell never got a penny of child support from her ex, especially given he was in prison.
“Don’t get too far ahead,” she called out to the girls as she and Poppy took their time. “Stop before you round the bend.” That was their agreement, if they couldn’t make eye contact with her, they needed to come back.
“Razor almost died,” she blurted. “He was on life support.”
Poppy stopped walking. “I wondered why you didn’t call for a couple of days. I knew something was up.”
“He was shot rescuing Ava.”
“Wow.”
Poppy knew better than to ask more questions. Most of the time, Saylor couldn’t say a word about whatever her brother was involved in—not that she ever knew as much as she did this time. If he knew she told her friend about his health scare, he probably wouldn’t like it, but she needed to tell someone who hadn’t been there and experienced the same fear Saylor had.
“Are you okay?” Poppy asked.
“I don’t know, to be honest. I’m not sure it’s really hit me yet.”
Poppy nodded and they kept walking.
“He asked Ava to marry him.”
“Would you stop doing that!”
“What?”
“Saying these things that I really should be sitting down to hear. Anything else? You aren’t married, are you?”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
However, the idea that Razor would ever get married had previously been as unimaginable as her getting married again.
FOUR HOURS LATER, Poppy had gone home and Saylor couldn’t bring herself to leave the perch from which she would see when Razor’s caravan pulled in.
She was turning into as much of a busybody as her neighbor had been when she and the girls still lived with their dad.
Just as she stood to go into the bedroom, she saw an SUV pull up. Unfortunately, it went into the garage before Saylor could see who was in it. “You’re such an idiot,” she mumbled, going down the hall to make sure the girls hadn’t decided to paint their bedroom like they had Poppy’s.
