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But all that stuff at the bridal shop happenedof my friends because I was all alone Worse: all alone at a double funeral

My father and his ere dead

I had no idea how to feel about that I&039;d never liked the Ant-auche woman who lied like fish sucked water, a woe and shattered e thirteen

And ht between the daily aged between the Ant and me, and my mom and the Ant, and the Ant and hiht now"), he stayed out of it altogether He lovedback from the dead horrified him

And she had never loved ht, because I had never liked her, either My return from the dead hadn&039;t i that had accomplished that trick was the birth of my half brother, Babyjon, as mercifully absent from the funeral

Everybody was absent Jessica was in the hospital undergoing chemo, and her boyfriend, Detective Nick Berry, only left her side to eat and occasionally arrest a bad guy

In a horrifying coincidence, the funeral was taking place where my own funeral had been Would have, except I&039;d cootten the hell out of there I was not at all pleased to find o, I&039;d gotten a look at the ehtsee Thus, I-ere sitting in a roo chairs, my dad and the Ant&039;s pictures blown up to poster size at the front of the rooht open The bodies had been burned beyond recognition

"-a pillar of the community, and Mr and Mrs Taylor were active in several charitable causes-"

Yeah, sure The Ant (short for Antonia) was about as charitably e of North Korea She threw my dad&039;sparties and pretend she was the proh school It had always amazed me that my father hadn&039;t seen that

I looked around the rooers (and not"pillars of the co on either side of me How could they? I was here by one on a diplomatic trip to Europe, toto play nice with everybody over here The European faction of vao, ot the hell out of town Me? I thought that was fine Out of sight, out of mindthat was practically the Taylor family motto Sinclair the art? Not so eo Since Tina was never very far from Sinclair, a solo trip for her was sort of unheard of But her exact last words as she left the house were, "What could possibly go wrong in teeks?"

Fain&039; last words