The Buyer Derek Chose Was Already On A Watchlist

over the fireplace. Derek in a golf shirt. Derek and Lauren on the beach. Derek holding his son at Disney with that big grin he used on clients and church people and cashiers and anybody he wanted something from.

Lauren poured herself coffee with a hand that knocked the spoon onto the tile.

I picked it up and set it by the sink.

She said, “Did he really continue reading …