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They both eyed Lily’s cute sundress and Uggs "I’ht here in Tieous here, I tend to forgive it"

"I’ okay?"

"Sure"

"I’ polite," Penny said "I really want to know Are you doing okay being back? It’s got to be hard--or so I’hed "Yeah I’y necessary You’re ave Aidan made his face look smoother than a baby’s butt If I come in, can you make my face look smoother than a baby’s butt?"

"Absolutely," Lily said

"And ic, you’ll tellon between you and my brother-in-law," Penny said in a casual tone that was in direct opposition to her obscene broaggle

Lily kept her cool "That won’t take long, since there’s nothing going on"

Penny studied her a beat and then s these days?"

"No"

"I’ator for an insurance co people That’s how I know you’ve told ht "Well, not thole lies"

"First lie," Penny said, holding up a finger "You’re not fine And the second …" She added another finger to the first "There is so on between you and Aidan, soed a laugh "You knoell as I do, Aidan isn’t all that interested in relationships"

"You’re wrong there," Penny said "He’s actually extremely attached to the people in his life and protects his relationships with the with a bone" She let that sink in a beat "I’ve got to go, but I’ll come into the Mane Attraction this week Maybe we can have drinks after and count the ways in which the Kincaids drive us crazy"

"You’re married to one of the the ways …"

Lily laughed, and when Penny drove off she went back to the woodpile All she needed were two, oing She carefully chose her logs, surprised at how heavy they ith last night’s rain soaked in Dahts

She stacked the logs in her ar dropped fro Then it ran over her feet and vanished

She screamed, took a step back, and--

Fell backward down the stairs

The logs ith her, hitting each stair with a thu the entire fall--which seemed to happen in slow motion--super noisy