"I'm not sure you're supposed to just glue a house back together," I called up to her. She yelped and almost fell off the roof. I ran to catch her, but she righted herself.
"You startled me," she said.
"At least make Remy do that. You can't break your neck on our property," I pleaded as she shimmied over to the ladder.
I would be lying if I said I didn't notice how nice her ass looked in the jeans as she stretched to climb down the ladder. I reached up to steady her, my hand on her waist.
Her foot slipped on the top rung, so I just picked her up and swung her to the ground.
"You're accident-prone."
"Yes, but you're always looking out for me," she said, smiling up at me. Then she tapped me on the nose with the bottle of glue.
Henry pushed past us.
"You need to ask before you go into her house," I chided him.
"Can I go inside?" Henry asked.
"What else are you forgetting?" I prompted.
"Please?"
"You're always welcome in my tiny house, Henry," Josie said, bending down to his level.
Henry sprinted inside yelling, "This is so cool!"
"Are your accommodations satisfactory?" I asked her.
"Er, Remy said there's no sewer hookup, so…" She fidgeted.
Henry stuck his head out of one of the tiny windows. "This house doesn't have a potty."
Josie looked a little red. "The ills of a tiny house."
"You can use ours," Henry said. "We have an indoor potty. And a shower. It's better than where I used to live. We only had a big hole. I almost fell in."
"You almost fell in a hole?" Josie asked. Henry nodded.
I felt sick. Josie looked shocked and horrified. The rush of shame at my upbringing flooded through me, and I grabbed Henry and dragged him back to the estate house before he could fill Josie in on what exactly all the Svensson brothers were running from.
23
Josie
Ididn't know what was going on with Mace. One minute we were having a moment. The next, he just shut down and stalked off.
Josie:So I'm living with Mace now
Willow:Say what?!
Josie:Not in his house. He let me park my tiny house in his backyard
Willow:Oh well, thank God you’re just camping on his lawn. Because living in his house, well, that would be weird
Josie:It's not like camping. It's a big backyard. It's more of an estate
Willow:Geeze how loaded is this guy?
