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Answers Ian

Then she opened her eyes, lit her candles, and spoke softly, "As you burn, this spell’s set free; As I will so mote it be"

An hour later, Bree stood up from her fireplace and blew out the half-burned candles She knehat she had to do She didn’t like it, but it was the option that oing to have to sell her house to Darius Damiano She couldn’t ask anyone to lend her that kind of money, even if they’d had it, and she couldn’t afford a loan She had to let the house go, and somehow in her rand That she understood

So Bree went to her computer, found a phone

nuent, Aave her a call on her cell phone Aht away, and Bree explained to her the situation

"So, I need to find a place to live, A decent available to buy, I’d be interested"

"No problem, Bree We’ll fix this for you I do actually know of one property for sale that you reen Drive, and it’s a little 1920s Victorian Sort of like a mini version of your house, and it’s been empty for a while since the owner died and the kids have taken a year to decide what to do with it"

Evergreen Drive That struck Bree as fortuitous

Evergreens symbolized eternal life since they never went con she could get because she was still feeling a little shell-shocked from the whole situation

"So when can we see it? I don’t have a lot of time The buyer wants me out by February 1"

"We should be able to see it to as you don’t mind that I’ll have my monkeys, aka children, with me Today was Piper’s last day of school before Christan lives on my hip since he’s only six months old I don’t think Danny will be able to stay home with them on such short notice"

"I don’t reat kid I’ll bring a book for her fro on her first day of break"

"She’d love that And I have to say that I’m damn curious why Darius Da through tax records I know Darius froo, and he never struckthis to you, Bree I knohat that house means to you, and your sisters, too"

Bree swore she wouldn’t cry, but her eyes did tear up "Thanks, A to tell myself that there is a positive reason for all of this, I just can’t see what it is yet"

"Soive a watery laugh "That’s true"

"And not to change the subject--okay, I a around town that you’re shagging my lawyer Please tell me that it’s true"

She should have known that the Cuttersville ru out the news about her and Ian in no tiether yesterday, but then he told me about Damiano’s ’offer,’ which basically forced ht he bore some culpability, so I sort of lost it on hi to do with it at all

He was just acting under the direction of his client Ian is a really good guy under all the button-up shirts"

Somehow Bree suspected that was the truth

"So did you sleep with him before you kicked hiht out what she was thinking And leave it to Bree to tell the truth

"Yes Twice"

"Ooohh, ht gleeful

Bree felt the saht back to the feel of Ian inside her "But then I freaked out on him and threw his jeans in his face and kicked hih "Well, that’s easy enough to fix, if you want to"

Bree knew she wanted to fix it Or at least hear Ian’s side of the story "It’s too late, Ao" She was sure of it

Ian pulled into the driveway of the house that was for sale and parked his car to wait for the real-estate agent He considered it a good sign that the listing agent illing to show him the house on such short notice, and the price was unbelievably low Ian could afford it easily and still o

He was very attracted to the idea of having a house in the country, one so close to Bree Maybe if he was around town, they could fix the rift between them, and God knew, he wanted that more than he wanted any piece of property

It had been an accident that had led hihts earlier, he had taken a wrong turn in the dark and wound up in a part of town he had never seen He’d turned around in the driveway of this house and seen the FOR SALE sign