Page 86 of No Cap
It’d only been as I realized it was too late for people to willingly answer the phone that I’d decided to stop.
When I’d gone to bed, I’d forgotten to close the files up.
This morning, though, I wouldn’t be letting anyone in to allow them to see the contents.
After everything was cleaned up, I walked to the door, gently moved the iguana’s tail, and opened the door.
I blinked when I saw Tay, Hollis’s brother, standing there looking expectant.
“What are you doing here?” he snapped.
I raised a brow at him. “I think the more appropriate question would be, what are you doing here?”
He frowned hard. “Hollis lives here, and she’s my sister.”
“Hollis is at work, and if you knew your sister, you would know that,” I returned.
I’d asked Hollis last week about her schedule, and found out that she works every single Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and every other Wednesday.
This being Monday, there was no surprise to her schedule.
Apparently, she’d been working that for her entire career at the hospital.
“Oh,” Tay frowned. “Do you know where she works? I have to apologize.”
He had to apologize…
“You don’t’ even know where she works?” I asked incredulously.
“No,” he shrugged. “I was…”
Selfish? Self-centered? An asshole?
“A jerk,” he finished, going a little light on himself. “Anyway, something happened yesterday, and I felt the immediate pressing need to let her know that we were jerks, and we won’t be playing Mom’s games anymore.”
Mom’s games?
“Your mom is the one who always instigated that?” I asked.
“She thinks it’s funny.” He shrugged. “And since Hollis never reacted how she wanted, she kept doing it. Mom stopped it with us when we got angry, but Hollis never gets angry… and we’re jerks.”
Yeah, they were.
After another fifteen-minute conversation with him standing in the hallway and me blocking his way inside, I said, “I’m going to take her lunch soon. If you go outside, I’ll meet you down there. Gotta get dressed.”
“I can’t come in?” he asked.
I shook my head. “No.”
Then I shut the door in his face.
When I next emerged, he was indeed waiting outside for me.
I gestured toward my truck and said, “Get in.”
He did, his eyes gleaming as he took in the new interior.
“This is a nice truck, how much did it cost you?”