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He always worked. It was expected of him and his siblings.
Nothing was given for free.
For the next few hours, cabinets were ripped from the walls, countertops smashed, and Liz was holding her end up. Damn, she was strong. But he knew it as he’d seen her body.
It didn’t just physically look strong but more that she had strength behind her.
She’d said one day that she had to be in her job. There were times you had to lift patients and it was never the lightweights that needed it.
He laughed over that but understood where she was coming from.
“Okay,” she said, wiping her arm across her brow. “That was one hell of a workout and felt good.”
“So...” he said. “Since the dumpster is here, do you want to take out the hall bath too?”
“What?” she asked.
“Yes,” Trevor said. “I was going to suggest it too.”
“I’m not doing it now,” she said.
“You’ve got the money,” her father said. “You were going to pay all that money for the kitchen that you don’t have to now.”
“I know,” she said. “But I need to get the kitchen done before I do anything else. It’s not that easy.”
“Sure, it is,” her father said. “You aren’t using it. You’ve got your bathroom and this half bath. Just shut the door and you won’t see it and it won’t bother you.”
Her shoulders slumped. “Fine,” she said. “Only because I think you two are having too much fun. Leave the toilet, please. I don’t want that hole or anything just open there.”
Christian started to laugh. “We’ll leave it. That is an easy thing to take out when the time comes.”
“No,” Trevor said. “Get rid of it. It’s green. I’ll put a new one in tomorrow for you. You know I can do it fast.”
She threw her hands up. “Only if you let me pay for it.”
There was a battle of wills going on. “Fine,” her father said.
Christian wasn’t saying a word and just went upstairs with Trevor to get the tub and vanity out. The floor needed to go too, the tiles were cracked and in horrible shape.
“That was easier than I thought it’d be,” he said. “I didn’t think she’d give in.”
“She’s had a rough time lately,” her father said. “Keep that in mind.”
He wasn’t surprised Trevor was talking to him now that Liz was staying downstairs to clean up the floor and bring the rest of the smaller pieces to the dumpster. He’d like to start on the floors today if Trevor was game. If not, he’d start tomorrow while he was here to give Trevor a hand.
“She won’t talk to me about anything,” he said.
“Not me either,” Trevor said. “She was a mess, that is all I know. Abby knows what was going on but won’t say anything.”
It wasn’t what he wanted to hear. “She seems like she is in a good spot now.”
“She is,” Trevor said. “I don’t want to see her like she was when she came home either. She just showed up. I had no warning. Nothing more than a phone call that she’d be home in a few hours and wasn’t going back. Her car was loaded as if she threw everything in there in a hurry.”
Shit.
“She said nothing?” he asked.
“No. I can guess, but it doesn’t do anything but wind me up and it’s best to not do that when I can’t change anything. As long as she is good now, that is all I care about.”
