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The house was gated and beautiful

It was also difficult to find for anyone asn’t an ace private investigator Andre Fine wasn’t showing up in my basic records searches No surprise there Many celebrity-types were hard to find Often their properties and hoers or other family members In Andre Fine’s case, the home was under a sister’s name It was a nice precaution to keep people liketheators didn’t have the federal government’s massive resources at their disposal Or an ex-partner ed his love life to them

I wasn’t here to interview Andre Fine I wasn’t here hoping he would see et a confession from him

For noaited down the street in my minivan, where I hoped to attract little or no attention Generally, a wo alone in a minivan on a quiet street attracted little attention A man in a minivan would warrant a call to the police

Soood to be me

Or a woman

As I waited and watched, I reflected on the fact that tonight was a big night in the Moon household After all, tonight was the first night that Tammy and Anthony would watch the to be surprisingly er than h alert, with her phone nearby Forty e alert chilanced at the phone,at horabbed e fro a jerk

I frowned and dashed off a text: Don’t call him Ant You know he doesn’t like that And kindly turn your TV off for one hour

But why? she wrote back al your brother a jerk

But Moh, this one fro mean

Don’t call your sister Fanny No TV for the two of you tonight

Not fair!

You’re mean

This sucks

Anthony’s feet smell

Tammy’s breath smells So do her arirl!

How I got into their loop of na, I didn’t know But they continued like this for the next few minutesall while I shook my head sadly Finally, I put a quick call in for my sister, who told me she was on her way over I checked the time My kids had watched theain, better than nothingAn hour later, a convertible BMW with its top down came up behind me It was silver and sleek and probably more expensive than my house in Fullerton Seated in the driver’s seat was none other than Andre Fine A beautiful blond was in the passenger’s seat next to hilanced at me Just another perfect day in Malibu

He turned into his driveaited aopen, then continued on, disappearing behind a long row of thick hedges

I waited another half hour, then stepped out of my minivan