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“He has a different girlfriend every week.” She rolls her eyes. “He’s a lawyer and isn’t home very much. He works on big fancy cases all over the state.”
“Oh.” I glance over to the gray house. A fancy lawyer, hey?
Hmm.
“On the other side of me, in the cream house, is Ethel.” Carol smiles. “She’s elderly and a little frail. We all look out for her.”
I smile. I have to admit, this does sound like a nice place to live.
“Then on the corner”—she points down the street to a huge house on the corner and rolls her eyes—“that’s the military house. Best to avoid that one at all costs.”
“The military house?” I frown.
“Six Navy SEALs live there together. I don’t know, special ops or something.”
My eyes linger down the road . . . my interest piqued.
“Sordid things happen in that house, dear.”
“Really?” I bite my lip to hide my smile. Special-ops sordid things sound hot.
“Women coming and going at all hours. Real playboys, those ones.” She leans in to lower her voice again. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re swingers.”
“Oh . . .” I nod as my eyes roam over their house. “Are they married?”
“No.” She frowns. “What makes you say that?”
“Swingers are married, aren’t they?”
“No, no, dear, it just means that they have sex with a lot of people. Look it up on the Google.”
The Google.
I bite my lip to hide my smile. Carol think she knows everything, and it is clear that she doesn’t.
“Anyway,” she continues, “they are huge and all muscly and go running and all types of crazy extreme activities.”
My eyes linger on their house.
Interesting.
“They rent and don’t really involve themselves with us. The boys don’t like them much.”
“The boys?”
“Oh, the men on this street are all tight. They hang out together.”
“What men?”
“Well, next door to you on one side lives Henley James.”
“What’s he like?” I act clueless.
“Beautiful man.” She leans in and lowers her voice. “Owns a huge engineering company, very successful.”
“Is he?” I nod as I listen. “What’s his wife like?”
“He’s not married. Although every woman he meets falls madly in love with him.”
