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“Could have been worse,” Brandt said. “I could have killed his girlfriend.”
“What?!”
“Don’t what me. I didn’t kill her.”
“Who? When did he get a girlfriend?”
“He’s keeping company with a string of them,” Brandt said.
“That’s my point. When did he get ONE of them?”
“Recently, the last three weeks apparently.”
“Damn. Okay. Why you want to kill her?”
“Shooting dirty looks at Abby while she’s outside with her kids. Giving her shit when she goes over to ask them to turn the music down in the middle of the night. Confronts me yelling and screaming at me about getting off their property when I go over there to find out where the fuck he is because he’s sure as hell not at work.”
“Oh, hell no!”
“Yeah. The bitch is lucky she walked away.”
“Who is she?” Barron asked.
“I don’t know. Olivia somebody or other.”
“Is he coming to work?” Barron asked.
“Who knows?” Brandt asked, as he headed to the other side of the building Barron was standing on the top of.
“You hear that shit?” Barron asked as he went back to his crew that was re-tarring the roof they were standing on.
“Yeah. I feel bad for him,” Shaun said.
“I do, too, to an extent, but at some point you gotta put your big-boy pull-ups on and get shit done,” Barron said.
“Yeah, but his life is completely turned around from what he expected it to be,” Shaun said.
“It ain't your fault,” Kiernan said.
Barron and Kiernan shared a knowing look.
“He’s right,” Barron said. “It’s not your fault, Shaun.”
“I know that. But I feel like I’m contributing.”
“It’s been almost two months since they broke up. While you made your intentions known, you didn’t go public with Bailey until just recently here. And even if you had, none of what happened with Remi and Bailey was your fault. You never said a word or gave even a hint about how you felt about her.”
A loud noise sounded on the far edge of the roof as Brandt set foot on the roof from the ladder they had extended there.
“I know. But I still wish there was something I could do to help him climb out of this pool of misery he’s stuck in,” Shaun said.
“We talking about Remi?” Brandt asked.
“Yeah. Shaun feels bad for him.”
“We all feel bad for him,” Brandt said.
“I keep telling him it ain’t his fault.”
