Teaching a Lesson

EPILOGUE

Dianne called the police to file a missing persons report. The investigating officer said security cameras in the parking lot showed she got in a van of her own free will. About a month later Dianne received an e-mail saying she had moved to New York and asked her to ship all of her clothes. We were only too happy to get our guest bedroom back. I never asked Dianne what she told Patti but we never heard from her again.

It turns out Bobby couldn't bring himself to torch the car. It was 'found' while we were in Hawaii, in mint condition less the ignition, which was torn out to because this was, after all, a stolen car.

Richard John Connelly II was born exactly nine months after our life began anew.