They’d been busy all day long on Sunday, but she and Lola had caught up on laundry and grocery shopping while the guys took care of the yard and cleaned house. They’d all been busy throughout the day, managed to throw together easy meals to keep everyone fed, and still had time to sit out in the backyard with a glass of wine and snacks in the afternoon and take a break. Marc had wandered out after his shower and brought an extra couple of chairs to put beneath the dogwood tree. Lola and Mandy had grabbed the bench—the one Ben claimed as his since it had been the scene of his infamous meltdown the first night he’d met Lola. Carrying around a huge load of guilt for twenty years had to end at some point, but it had been Lola and Ben’s beginning, and the end of a long estrangement between Ben and his younger brother, Jake. Marc set the chairs across from the bench, put a couple of cold beers on the little round table Lola had dragged out a few weeks earlier, and sat. “I need to go back to the office,”
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