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“Bye,” said Sierra, holding onto Saylor with one hand while she waved at him with the other.
“Bye, Miss Sierra.”
He stood up and looked into their mother’s eyes. “I’ll see you soon, Saylor.”
She nodded. “Bye, Monk.”
9
“Ava is beginning to think you don’t like her,” said Razor, who showed up at her garden gate several days later, scaring the crap out of her.
“That’s silly.”
“She wants Sierra and Savannah to be flower girls.”
“Okay. What does that have to do with me?”
Razor crouched do
wn next to where she was pulling weeds and rested his hand on her arm. “Saylor, look at me.”
She tossed the garden tool on the ground, wiped her hands on her shorts, and sat on her butt in the grass. “What?”
“We’ve been home two weeks, and we’ve hardly seen you.”
“What the eff, Raze? I’ve gone months without seeing you.”
“I’m not talking about me. I’m talking about Ava.”
“It’s awkward, okay? I’m sorry if I’ve hurt Ava’s feelings, but I’d rather not run into Monk.”
“Why not?”
Saylor got back on her knees and continued her assault on the plants that didn’t belong in her garden.
“It isn’t like you to let a man keep you away from your family.”
Saylor stood up and threw her trowel on the ground. “Don’t pull that shit with me, Tabon. I don’t want to see him, and I don’t fucking care what you think. How dare you throw anything about Cliff in my face?”
Razor stood too. “This isn’t about Cliff.”
“Isn’t it? If I remember right, you said almost those exact same words to me a few months after I started dating him.”
“This is different. Monk isn’t keeping you from us. You’re keeping yourself away because you don’t want to see him.”
She went into the house, but he followed.
“I’ll reassign him if that’s what it takes.”
“I just needed a little time,” she sighed. “Things were moving too fast, getting too serious.”
Her brother raised an eyebrow.
“Okay, so maybe it wasn’t getting too serious, but he wanted more from me than I could give.”
“Like I said, I’ll reassign him. Done deal,” he opened the door to leave.
“Don’t do that. It isn’t fair to him.”
