Chapter 16. Honeymooners

She was standing impatiently outside the safety zone of the house chatting with Janka and Elsie while Isaias and his team went through the house carefully one more time to make sure there was nothing inside which could cause a problem once it was demolished.

“I can’t believe he’s going to level a half million-dollar house.” Elsie was still shaking her head. “It seems wasteful.”

“On the way over, I got a text from Merlin. He said his flight had landed and he needed to talk to me. He wanted to remake another offer on the house. He felt strongly his child should be raised in a house where love was. He said I am punishing my nephew by refusing to allow him to grow in a home where his father knew only happiness and how it is unlike me to be spiteful and petty. He wants me to rethink my decisions and to sit down and have a rational, logical conversation with him and to consider not holding his mistakes against his son.”

“Wait ‘til he finds out you spitefully fucked his a