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"There was a time when you wanted me to stay home"

"There was a time when…" Laura stopped in midsentence and continued up the stairs

He watched her disappear around the corner, closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead When he turned to go back down, he spotted Teresa standing in the archway "See that she doesn't hurt herself, and re"

"Yes, Mr Connelly, I'll remember"

As soon as he reached the botto ed hisit slam behind him

Teresa went to the , e doors opened, Mathew backed out, and then drove his red Ferrari around the curved driveway toward the gate After he was gone, she let the curtain close and went upstairs to see about Laura

The next , Teresa stood beside the bed, opened her palm and offered a pill to Mrs Connelly

Laura Connelly's enormous bedroom on the second floor was decorated in outdated pasteltable, a sofa and loveseat with a azine rack and a coffee table Her walk-in closet was bigger than most bedrooms, held three dressers and ht to own Teresa expected to spend an entire week just organizing it

"I don't want that, take it away," Laura -size bed, complete with a lace trimmed mauve canopy, she turned her back to the maid and buried the side of her face in a pillow

"Mr Connelly gave me specific instructions to see that you take your blood pressure medicine"

"Of course he did, he wants me alive, not dead…at least not yet"

"You wish to die?"

Laura turned back over "No I don't I can't die noould miss all the fun"

"What fun is that?"

Laura sat up and then held her head as her hangover pain began She waited for it to subside, took the pill, put it in her lass of water Teresa handed her "The inheritance, o to court to settle the one yesterday?"

Laura wrinkled her brow "Didn't I tell you?"

"I'ht about that for athe will, you see, and I…what day is this?"