Chapter 6. House for Sale

She sat in the realtor’s office staring at the offer in her hand in shock. “I don’t know what to say.”

“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth,” the woman said as she sucked deep on her vaping apparatus, blowing eucalyptus scented smoke around her head. “I had a call this morning telling me the buyer wanted something in your neighborhood, with your specific number of bedrooms and bathrooms. It was a kismet situation. He made a full cash offer. Close tomorrow. All you must do is sign on the line and find a way to get your furnishings out by tomorrow. Do you have an alternate place to go?”

She looked at her brother beside her and nodded, “yes. My brother and his wife are going to put me up. I’ve been in the house six weeks now since I found out about his affair, and I need to get out. It’s too full of horrible memories.” She pouted her lips at Fred, “can we get everything out in a day?”

“I swear, if it takes me and three moving companies and all our friends and family