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a selfish spoiled bitch. Now I have a hole in the pit of my stomach. Doing
the right thing was supposed to make me feel better. It doesn ’ t!
    “ You reach him, you tell him why you leave. He understand. ”
    Sniffling
and snorting was so undignified, but hey, we ’ re family here, “ How will I find him, Gio? He ’ s still on his bike trip
riding who knows where and for how long, before he makes his way home. That is,
even if he goes home. His identity has been compromised. There ’ s a bounty on his head. For
all I know, he may just keep on riding. ”
    “ He and you talk about his dog, you call May-jore. He will
not leave dog. You look there. ”
    Cousin
Gio thinks like a man, not some silly broken hearted girl. I appreciate that! “ Good idea, Giovanni. There
can ’ t
be that many kennels where he lives. I ’ ll send my girlfriend Marcy
to visit all of them until she finds him. We find Major, we ’ ll find D or at least I ’ ll be able to get a message
to him. He needs to know the truth about what happened yesterday and why. He
has to know I did what I did for him, for Victoria. For once in my life, ” I sighed, “ I didn ’ t do it for me. ”

Chapter
5
    “C all
if you need me. Leave a message on this phone or email Victoria and I’ll get in
touch. Vic, give Frank and Josie your email address along with my current cell
number. I’m going to say goodbye to Terry and Ron. Oh, and Frank, don’t tell
them their homes came from me. It’s best they come from you. The ideal way to
create loyal, lifetime employees is to treat them the way you’d like to be
treated. By this magnanimous gesture, they'll always have your back just like
you’ve so graciously had mine.”
    Walking
into the breakfast room, “ Terry, Ron, I can ’ t thank you enough. Putting
yourself in Harm ’ s Way for a guy you ’ ve never met is truly
admirable. ”
    “ No problem, Mr. D, ” mumbled Terry, looking at the ground uncomfortably,
shuffling his feet from side to side.
    “ We haven ’ t had a chance to do much good for anybody lately. That is
until Frank found us and put us to work. It ’ s a great feeling when you
can give back, rather than take, ” Ron
confessed. “ Frank says you ’ re good people. That was
enough for us. ”
    “ Take care of him. Will ya? ”
    “ Vic, ” I
shouted into the kitchen, “ pack up, it ’ s time for us to get on the road. ”
    “ Josie, can you ship Candi ’ s things for me? I ’ ll figure out where to send
them once I get home. ”
    “ Frank, ya ’ ll need to pack up. By the time you return the rental, your
ride home will be ready to rock and roll. ”
    “ Quit hollering, D. You know better than to shout between
rooms, ” scolded Josie,
stomping through the swinging door, shaking her forefinger in my direction. “ We heard you. Why are you
and Victoria in such an all fired hurry to leave? Why can ’ t you stay here an extra
day? I want you to sketch out the balconies and hot tubs before you leave. ”
    “ I ’ ll talk to Vic. If she... ”
    “ I already have, ” exclaimed Josie, stomping her feet. “ You ’ re staying. I ’ ll be right back with a
sketch pad and paper. You were pretty good at sketching out the glass walls in
this breakfast room. I can ’ t wait for you to put your vision on paper. ”
    “ Josie, it ’ s your vision. You share it, I ’ ll sketch it. ”
    Vic,
having waited for the noise to subside, appeared in the doorway.
    Making
another pronounced entrance, I burst into the breakfast room, after overhearing
Josie say we were staying, “ I
can ’ t
contribute to the architectural portion of this conversation, but I can write,
so I ’ d
like to work on the couples promotion. Ms. Josie, I bet if you ’ ll keep a record of their
responses, especially the best ones, I could publish them into a book at some
point. ”
    “ Oh, that would be wonderful, Victoria. We could also make a
framed copy for the winners as a memento to take home. ”
    It
was