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“Uh, it’s more of a you’ll understand it better as we go along kind of thing,” Barron said.
Brandt just shook his head and glared at Daisy. “Couldn’t find time to tell your man, yet, huh?”
“I just found out he was planning on sticking around when you did. I’m not the one assuming anything, you are. Don’t look at me.”
Brandt focused on Charlie. “Will you trust me to say that you’ll understand everything in time? You will. I give you my word on that. Everything works out with you and Daisy, you’ll see first hand.”
Charlie held Brandt’s gaze for a few moments, before he looked at Daisy and smiled gently at her. “Looks like I’ll have to if I plan to stick around.”
“You ain’t going nowhere,” Havoc said.
“Changing the subject if I may, Barron and I were talking this morning and got some changes to discuss. We were going to wait until everyone was together, but who knows when that will be, and most of the parties involved are here now, so…”
“Sure, go for it,” Havoc said.
“First, y’all see Barron and Emmalyn’s house is laid out. We’re about to have the slab poured and get started on it,” Brandt said.
“Really? Why? She already comes over here at the butt crack of dawn every damn day she’s feeling good,” Havoc said. “Now she’s going to be living across the street.”
“Yes, but now you can go irritate her whenever you want to,” Analise reminded.
Havoc thought about it, his head leaning first to the right, then to the left as he looked off into the distance while his mind worked. “You know, that could be a good thing. I might like this.”
“You do realize you’d have to get up before dawn to come to our house and bother Emmalyn,” Barron said.
Havoc scowled. “I don’t like that idea anymore,” he grumbled.
“Either way, we’re going to be working on their house,” Brandt said. “Once it’s finished, that’ll leave Barron’s home empty.”
Lucien and Hellen shared a look.
“We were thinking since Lucien likes the water so much, it might make sense to offer it to Hellen and Lucien,” Brandt said.
“Yes!” they both said at the same time.
Barron chuckled. “Sorry we had to talk you into it.”
“We’ve been thinking that if no one else wanted it, we’d like to have it,” Hellen said.
“Consider it done,” Barron said.
“And that leaves Hellen’s house.”
“I don’t think anyone wants to live in it. I don’t even really want to live in it, but it is what it is,” Hellen said.
“What if we tore it down, and put in a pool. I’ve heard a couple of y’all mention it, and I really like the idea. We coulduse the whole lot and even make a splash pad for the littles, and maybe put in a fire pit on the opposite side for bonfires and all.”
“Yes!” Everybody said.
“I need a lazy river, so I can float my ass around it while I enjoy a beer,” Havoc said.
“I doubt we’ll put in a lazy river, but a large pool is doable,” Brandt said.
“Olympic sized?” Havoc asked.
“Definitely,” Brandt said.
“That could work,” Havoc said.
