Then again, if I’d asked, it would make her worried about mystate of mind.
So I hadn’t asked.
The fact that she could, indeed, be on Bounty radar wassomething I needed to chat with her about.
It was clear I didn’t know Beck and his brothers as well asI thought I did.
Now I knew anything was possible.
It was also clear I should have probably gone out shootingwith my dad one of the times he’d mentioned it.But this was part of my mom notbeing a fan, as such.She said Dad could teach me to shoot when I was oldenough and when I was old enough I got more interested in shopping, movies, andboys with bikes (not in that order) and I forgot to ask my dad to teach me toshoot.
“Chaos covering her mother?”Zip asked Snapper, taking meout of my thoughts.
“Just get the binder, Zip,” Snap ordered on a sigh.
Zip shot a squinty-eyed look at Snap before he grumbledunintelligibly and moved away.
“I’m not sure I want to look at whatever this binder is,” Idecreed and Snap stopped watching Zip move and looked to me.
“You definitely don’twannalookat Zip’s binder,” he confirmed.
I decided to change topics.
“This house you all moved me into, is it one of yours?”Iasked.
“Yup,” he answered without delay, no beating around the bushfor Snapper.
“Did you evict someone for me?”I asked.
“Yup,” he answered, again without delay.
Holy crap.
He actually had.
“Like, in a day?”I queried, my voice higher, my eyebrowssearching for my hairline.
“Gave them two days,” he told me.
“That’s…well, that’s crazy.”
“Had another property open.Bigger, nicer, moved them intothat.Same rent.So I didn’t evict them, exactly.And they had no complaints.”
Bigger property, same rent as the smaller one.
And for the time being, I was rent free.
He was going to bleed money for me.
Oh God.
“Snap, you didn’t have to do that.”
“You’re wrong.”
“I can stay with Mom until—”
“Rosie, it’s done.”
