Page 7 of Trevor

“Her age is important to her being locked away because she will only perfect her ways of killing as she gets stronger.And she was nearly there now.We might never have been able to figure out that she killed those people if not for the fact that there was a single fingerprint in the blood on the body of one of the children.We all feared that as she got older, she’d be better at not leaving a trace behind, and we’d be looking for her all over the world.”

“I’m sorry.”She nodded and laid her head on his chest.“Whatever is being done to her, it’s not nearly enough.”Jade agreed with him.“I’ve been looking over the specs on the place that she is now.They’re certainly not taking any chances of her getting out, are they?I mean, they concreted her into her cell so that she won’t be able to bribe her way out of there.I had a thought that she was going to freeze to death in the winter but she won’t, will she?She’ll simply live because they want her to die.”

Going back to his condo, he realized that he’d missed several calls.Listening to his messages as he walked back, he heard from the bank to see if he had applied for a loan through one of their branches and several calls from the realtor to ask him if he wanted to see any other houses.He’d not yet heard back from the couple selling their home, and he was getting nervous about that.

Stomping the snow off his boots when he got home, he looked around the condo and laughed.He’d been packing since he’d put a bid on the house, and it caused him to have to search the boxes for things when he needed them.In his mind, he wanted to be ready.It was his brother Maverick that suggested that he slow down.The couple had thirty days or more to move out.Of course, he had to tease him a bit, too, for jumping the gun.

Deleting all the other messages, it was just spam, he called the relator to ask if she had any houses to show him that weren’t small.Of course, she told him, she had more larger houses that people didn’t want any more than she did smaller ones.He didn’t care to be cramped up in a house anymore.Taking the dogs out so they could do their business, he heard from the couple about the house.He’d gotten the house.Then, he was asked if they could have the next two weeks to move out.Trevor told them they could, thinking it was better than he’d thought, and told them that he was going to need that time to get things to fill out the house.

“We’re going to auction off the things in the house that we’re not taking.Would you like to come by and see what you might want to purchase?It’s entirely up to you, but the house has more bedrooms than what we’re going to be moving into, so we aren’t taking any of them with us.Just the master suite of things.”He asked how they would be pricing things.“The auctioneer told us that he could maybe get a few people gathered up, and we’d do it right in the rooms.It will all be sold at the same time per room.We just want out of this big house and move into something smaller on our daughter’s land.”

“I’d love that.And if I win the bid, it will be one less thing that I have to worry about getting.”He was almost giddy with the prospect of getting his house laid out so soon.Of course, he’d never seen the bedrooms, being too excited to get the house when he’d been there, but he thought that if he didn’tlike it, he’d just not bid.Or perhaps bid low with the hopes of getting them cheaper and replacing them as he found things that he liked.“You tell me when you’re going to do it, and I’ll be there.I love this idea.Thank you.”

“We’re just so happy to be getting into something smaller, young man, because we’re not as young as we used to be, and stairs are killers.The deciding factor was when my wife fell down them, breaking her wrist and foot.No more stairs for us, we decided.”Trevor told him how sorry he was to hear that.“You’ve no idea what it was like to find your wife lying on the floor sobbing about how she hit her head on the floor and her wrist and foot hurt badly.”

He said that he’d call him back when he had a date and time.Trevor did a little dance in the snow when he closed the connection.The puppies were having such a good time in the yards that he had a hard time wrestling them into listening to him.Taking the dogs back in the condo, he knew that the dogs were going to love the fenced-in back yard, too.

Getting online when he got back in his place, he looked for prices on bedroom sets.He wasn’t really sure what was in the rooms.Were there two dressers or one?Did they have nightstands or not?So to get himself a good pricing, he wrote down what he thought it might well cost for the entire room full of things for himself.Also, what he thought individual prices might be on each item.It was a great deal more expensive than he realized.Even putting in the cost of wear and tear on things.

Making dinner for himself, he played with the dogs.They really were a great source of entertainment, but they were also very messy what with knocking things over and slobbering on everything.He couldn’t wait until they were bigger so that he could get them to settle down.However, watching some people’s dogs in the complex, he did wonder what he’d gotten himself into by taking two dogs instead of just the one.Smiling to himself, he knew that everyone had taken a couple of the pups, so he wasn’t too worried yet.He might even send them off to training school to have them behave when he wasn’t around.

At about half past six, the Courtrights called back.There was going to be an auction in the morning.They wanted it finished with what they had to move out as yet and that there would be three more groups there.He was happy about that but also going to take his dad with him.Or his mom.She’d glare at the other groups if they outbid him, and he’d win that way.He wasn’t his mommy’s baby for nothing.

It just so happened that his mom was busy with her tea club—he didn’t understand why they called it that, rarely did they ever drink tea—but his dad was free.Going to bed that night, he wasn’t sure if he was going to be able to sleep as his excitement level was through the roof.Christ, he was about as excited as he’d been as a kid when Christmas and his birthday rolled around.

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Henrie wasn’t sure why she’d been asked to drive her truck to the address that was on the paperwork.Sure, it was a big house, and she knew that things needed to be moved out, but she wasn’t going to lift anything, nor was she going to assist in it either.

There were rules with her company and one of them was you do not get involved with moving things that are not a part of her company.Like the company she worked for delivered couches to stores all over the state of Ohio and West Virginia, but she only had to back her rig up to the distribution center, and they did all the lifting.

Having to take her rig to a person’s house without being told there would be help made her nervous about what was going to happen.After parking in the long U-shaped drive, she got out and went to find a Mr.Peabody and ask about why she was there.At so fucking early in the morning too.

Finding the owners of the house, they were confused as well as to why she was there, the man told her where to find Mr.Peabody.This was costing him nearly four hundred bucks an hour, according to the sheet she’d been given.She hoped that this wasn’t going to be an all-day move.She had to work at ten tomorrow, taking a load to West Virginia.Peabody was standing in the hall next to what appeared to be a bedroom.

“There you are.You’re late.”She told him that she was on time, she didn’t expect to have towalk around for forty minutes in trying to find him.“Well, you’d better be on standby in the event that I win the bids.I have to have things moved out as soon as I win them.”

“I’m assuming that you have loaders.”He asked her what she was talking about and Henrie knew this was going to happen and stretched her neck until it popped twice.“I don’t load my rig.That’s on you.I drive to and from, but that’s the extent of my contract with you.”

“No, I asked for someone to come and pick up the loads for me.That would be you.I hope you’re stronger than you look because this is some heavy shit that they’re selling.And I plan on buying it all.”She pulled out a copy, not the original work that he had signed.“See right there, it says that you’re going to be picking up loads that I purchase.”

“Picking up loads, I’m not going to be loading it.That’s on you to take care of.”He was shaking his head even as she pulled out her cell.After telling the dispatcher what was going on, she was told to hand the phone over to him.While he argued with her dispatcher, she decided to have a look around.It was a beautiful home, and she could only dream about living in something like this.

The first bedroom that she looked in had her whistling at the pieces.They were huge, but she could tell that they weren’t any of that plywood stuff but solid wood, more than likely oak.Even the sleigh bed, being about a king, she would guess, would weigh more than five hundred pounds by itself.That wasn’t even including the mattress that went with it.Smiling at the couple that was in the room when they smiled at her, Henrie backed out of the room to find that Peabody was still on the phone with her company—him getting louder all the time.She went into the second bedroom and then on to the third.That was where she fell in love.

The room was done up in earth tones.Browns, blues, and rusty reds that made her want to live out the rest of her life in here.The bed, another sleigh bed, seemed to be about the same size, but this room had end tables on either side of the bed as well as two large dressers that looked to be made of the same wood.Something like a dark chocolate did when she splurged on it.There was also a full-length mirror of the same wood that took up an entire corner of the room.She’d bet anything that the prices of these pieces would be around five grand total, if not more.And the man who had made arrangements to have her pick up the stuff didn’t look as if he could afford one room, much less the six that was up on this floor.

“The two rooms over the garage have been emptied, so we don’t have to go over there.”The younger man who joined the well-dressed couple started talking as soon as they entered the room.“They’ve been broken down already and are in the garage.That’s where they’ve been storing boxes as they load them up.”She wondered if they had movers to load up their moving truck or not.She came into the hall just as Peabody was screaming at someone on the phone.

His face was red and ruddy looking.She knew the auctioneer as she’d been to several of his auctions before.The man was trying in vain to calm the man down.When Peabody tossed her phone at her, she barely caught it out of the air.Donna, the dispatcher, was still talking when she put it up to her ear to see what was going on.

“It’s me.”Donna told her to hang on a moment until she calmed herself down.When she let out several long breaths and counted to ten three times, she seemed to have a better control over herself.“Are you all right?”

“No.Good lord, Henrie, how is he talking to you?”She said that he’d walked away before speaking to her.“Well, don’t you dare try and load that stuff up on your own.He didn’t pay for loaders, and I’m not going to be messing with him anymore.Just drive.That’s all you were hired to do.”

“I told him that.That’s why I called in rather than to argue with him.Though I have to admit, he does seem to like the sound of his own—” The couple with the younger man came to ask her something.Telling Donna that she’d call her back, she put the phone in her pocket.“Yes, what can I do for you?”

“He’s showing off.”The woman leaned in and whispered her observation.“The man was just saying to the auctioneer that he wasn’t going to have you take anything.He was just trying to intimidate anyone who tried to bid against him.That he was so sure that he was going to win the bids that he hired you to come here and pretend.”

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