Page 70 of Inglorious
“I will be. I needed this.”
“Probably. Sorry, Nanci. If I’d checked the rooms earlier—”
“No. Inglorious, I was too angry back then. I wouldn’t have read Seth’s letter, and if I had… I’d likely have ignored his wishes. The only person to hold responsible is Fury. I know thatnow. It’s taken time to come to terms with placing the blame where it belongs. Seth would have been furious with how I acted, but he’d have understood. He loved both of us.”
Inglorious chewed his bottom lip. “Nanci, just because Psych wanted us to get together, you don’t have to.”
“Do you really think I’d suffer your pathetic ass because Seth asked me to? Roman, be serious,” I said with a laugh.
Inglorious seemed a little uncomfortable and then shrugged. “Grief acts in funny ways.”
“Roman, shut the hell up, you’re making a fool of yourself,” I replied, and he looked surprised before chagrin crossed his face.
“Let’s pack up,” he suggested, and I nodded.
It took us a couple of hours because we picked up items and recalled the memories attached to them. For now, I’d put these in the attic before I decided what to do with Seth’s belongings. Like the brothers, I’d been staying in the clubhouse. None of us had chosen a home yet, nor had we even considered building one. We had needed to be around each other, which was understandable.
However, with Kya in the mix, Inglorious required a house. Kya needed a yard and somewhere to play. After we placed the last box in the attic, I turned to Inglorious.
“You need to pick a home for Kya. She can’t grow up here; it’s not healthy. It would go a long way in helping her recover her former self.”
“I didn’t think of that,” he replied.
“Of course you didn’t. Kya needs a place to call home, somewhere that is truly hers. Sure, she has her bedroom here, but this isn’t really suitable for her. And we must get her back into school. Doc has been keeping the education board up to date with her progress, but we don’t know how far behind she is,” I said.
Inglorious considered my words. “We gotta find a teacher to open that kindergarten in the old schoolhouse. If we hired someone now, they could work with Kya and get her back up to speed.”
“Not a bad idea. I’ll put an advert out,” I replied.
“Okay. Let’s go get an update on construction because the old schoolhouse wasn’t top priority, but it looks like it needs to be,” Inglorious said.
“Agreed.”
Luckily for us, Apache and Rock were both visiting, so we sat down to discuss the renovations we needed. Then we walked through the housing area trying to find a suitable home. The size of the houses did not impress Inglorious. I couldn’t disagree.
“None of these work,” Inglorious said.
“We’ve still got the other side to check,” I suggested.
Inglorious nodded but didn’t seem convinced until we hit the back part of the second residential area. There were two roads, each with around twenty houses on either side, totalling roughly eighty homes, and the streets interlinked.
“These are doable,” I muttered, looking at the properties here. “They’re semi-detached, but we could knock them into one.”
“Yeah, I guess this was the rich people’s part.” Inglorious studied the buildings in front of him. They had large front and back yards and were easily big enough for kids to run around in, especially if you knocked the adjoining yards into one.
“I forgot about this area,” Inglorious admitted as we looked at a house at the end of the street. It had additional land, which would be perfect for a pool.
“Seems made for you and the club,” I mused.
“Yeah. I wonder if Apache can put a team on these?”
“Apache will end up with all his employees here,” I said with a laugh.
“I don’t reckon he cares as long as he gets paid.”
“Okay. I’ll have Rock or Apache come out here and see what they think,” I replied.
“Nanci, one thing. The brothers pay for the renovations out of their own money. They get the house and land free, but need to stump up for repairs and shit. That was agreed when we moved here. So that you know.”
