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“I thought I said cheap?”

“Got bedbugs from a cheap room in Abilene one time,” Josiah said

“Never again,” he and Ephraim vowed at the same time

“Whatever Just find a place to hole up and wait for us”

“Will do,” Josiah said “Uh, hey Chief?”

I stiffened at his tone “What?”

“Didn’t seeht you should know that her place had been tossed”

“Say what?”

“They didn’t break anything, but they weren’t careful, either”

“Not knoas there before ,” Ephraim added “But we found a s under her bed that theyimportant”

“Shit,” I said, turning to look into the kitchen

“She didn’t have a ton of sentiet ruined in transit,” Eph said

“There’s a reason I hire e do sucks”

“I owe you guys”

“Nah, she didn’t have much,” Josiah replied “And since we didn’tframe, it went pretty fast”

“The quilting fraht, anyway Didn’t really count as furniture,” Eph pointed out

“She has a quilting frame?” The idea of my wild Cecilia that could never sit still and was always looking for the next big thing, sitting down in front of a dahter

“Yeah,” Josiah said, sounding in, too”

“Our gran had a wood fraenerations—” Eph said