“Everybody out,” Caris spoke suddenly as she looked at the next text message on her phone. She pointed at the lawyer, “you get out too. I need to talk to my mother. Get out. All of you out.” When he protested, she looked at Aileen, “I know where Maris is. He goes or I keep the info to myself, and I will tell you right now, she’s on the verge of leaving California and I’ll happily pay her one-way flight.”
“Get out,” Aileen instructed the man without hesitation. “I f****d up with one kid. I’m not losing her too.” Her curse making the man’s head snap in surprise.
“Bout f*****g time she grew a pair,” Virgil offered bitterly, almost shoving the protesting man out of the room.
When Boone closed the wide French doors to the salon closed behind him leaving the two women alone, Caris looked at h
