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“Hey! I resent that!” Quinn screams, standing and smacking the table. “Eight arrests. Eight charges dropped. My record is clean, lady.”

Bonnie only snickers. “You two think you’re so high and mighty here. Well, guess what, you’re wrong. Grace is going to be coming home with me. Whether you two like it or not.”

“Bring it on bitch,” Quinn says as I’m too overwhelmed to speak. “You have no idea what you’re up against.”

The two have one last staredown before Bonnie grabs her purse and exits the bar. I don’t move as she does. Because all I can think is that she’s right. There’s a chance, at least a small one, that a court could side with her.

And that small chance is far too big for my liking.

“Hey,” Quinn says. “Don’t think like that.”

I don’t know how Quinn could read my mind, but I’m grateful that she did.

“What am I going to do?”

“Easy,” she says. “We’re going to round up my family.”

guide to love rule #59

Know which sibling to call when you need a body buried. If you’re that sibling, make sure to bring a lot of shovels.

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Quinn: SIBLINGS! I’m sending out the bat signal.

Simon: Oh my God! I’m included!

Quinn: Fuck yeah, you are. There’s a problem. And I need all of you.

Maeve: What’s the matter?

Ainsley: Is everything okay with Grace?

Quinn: Physically yes, so no one worry about that. But, there’s a situation that has come up that I need all the Banks siblings and significant others help with.

Simon: What’s the matter, Quinn? How deep are you in? I knew one day I’d be bailing you out of jail.

Quinn: No bail money needed. Yet.

Ainsley: Quinn, you’re scaring me.

Quinn: It’s too much to text but here’s the short version: Porter’s bitch of a mother is in town and served him with papers to take custody of Grace.

Simon: Oh, absolutely the fuck not.

Stella: I’ll start digging for dirt on her. I’ll have a full file by the morning.

Maeve: We’ll be there first thing.

Ainsley: Quinn, try and get some sleep tonight. But please know, we’re not going to let anything happen to Grace, or you and Porter.

“So what areyour siblings going to do?” Porter asks as we walk out of the house first thing the next morning. “I feel like if one of them was an attorney, that would help more than Simon’s bounce house guy.”

“I’m not exactly sure, but Maeve likes to joke that each of us have a duty if a body needs buried.”

“Quinn, I love you and your determination right now, but what the hell does that have to do with our situation?”

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