always managed to manipulate her into giving him what he wanted.
“What’s the condition?” she asked warily.
“Let me line up the best defense attorney I can find, just in case. You don’t have to worry about the bill.”
“That’s not the point. I don’t need—” Mari began.
“But your family needs to do something, okay?” Geoff said. “Something more than playing taxi while we wait for your detective friend to crack the case.”
She wanted an aspirin. “Okay.” Surely this mess would be cleared up soon—any day now—and her life would return to normal.
They set a time for him to pick her up in the morning, she asked that he give his bride her love and they said goodbye. After she hung up and took some aspirin, she turned on the television. Perhaps watching a tribe of ordinary people attempt to outplay, outwit and tearfully eliminate each other on some deserted island would put her own life back into perspective.
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