![]() “This better be the first and last time you buy a property sight unseen.” His voice was its usual morning rasp when Maggie dragged him out of bed too early for his liking. He flopped back in his seat and shook his head. The view from up there was one she predicted that even the pragmatic Dean would get excited about. The third and final level was closed in with rounded windows and a needle point-tipped roof. Part of the porch on the first floor, it became a balcony on the second. Shingles and carved wood with several layers of peeling paint battled it out to draw the eye first.īut nothing could compete with the turret. A massive porch that disappeared around one side. ![]() The house rose in front of them through the rain-slicked windshield as the truck squeezed through the overgrowth on both sides of a rutted lane. She was used to Dean’s overprotectiveness toward her home renovation budget and his consistent mistrust of her ability to turn nightmares into dreams. “Har har, smartass,” Maggie quipped over Aerosmith wailing through the speakers. ![]() “Did you consider just setting a pile of money on fire instead?” ![]()
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