“We could put in a media room too.” Tracy nodded and thought it was a good idea. As the two of them tossed ideas back and forth, he set the library addition aside. Pulling up the next paper, he looked at it for five minutes before he realized neither of the women were speaking. They were looking at him with an odd look on their faces.
“What are you upset about?” He asked Jude how she’d come to that. “You’re talking to yourself. Actually, you’re cursing too, but it was the talk that had us looking at you. What’s going on with whatever you’re looking at?”
“Do you remember Mr. Bloom? He was here at Christmas. Remember how he and Abe connected well?” Jude mentioned how she’d taken Abe to his house a few times last week. “Yes, that’s right. Well, he passed away the day before yesterday. Abe and Tracy are mentioned in his will.”
“Me? Why me? I mean, in a will, does that mean I might owe him something? Because if it does, I’m not going. I doubt even Abe would go.” Duncan told her that all it said was they were mentioned. “Can you find out?”
“I’ll check, but I doubt you owe him anything. Usually, when someone is mentioned in a will, they’re going to get something. Not the other way around. The person has died, so I’m thinking he doesn’t believe you owe him anything.” Tracy glared at him. “And that is such a teenager thing to do, love.”
“Good. I’m not sure what he’d be leaving us. To be honest, I didn’t talk to him as much as Abe did. And the one time I was there with my brother, he offered me his library to use while they worked on a project the two of them had started.” She looked hopeful. “Do you think he might have left me some of his books? He has a—had a large collection of all sorts of books.”
“We’ll have to find out by going to the attorneys tomorrow. We’re to be there at ten in the morning. Is there anything going on that I need to know about first?” Jude told him nothing, and Tracy said she had a test for school, but it wasn’t until later in the day at three. “I’m thinking we should be done in plenty of time for you to make that class.”
After they left him to his work, he was able to finish up on two more projects. Duncan was glad for the help in getting through the paperwork. Jude had taken half of his workload and had finished most of them already. He would be glad when he was caught up. Then he’d only have one or two a day to deal with instead of the four dozen or so he’d been putting off in favor of the holidays, as well as getting the castle ready for he and Jude to live in.
Chapter 10
Jude watched the line running through the building before she had them shut it off. Something was off here, and she knew it had to do with human error rather than anything with the lines. So far, she’d been able to track five packages, and each of them had gone to the correct line to be loaded onto the right truck. She turned when Remi said her name.
“Did you know when we got here today that there was over a million dollars in missing product?” Jude told her she’d found it already. “How? And you should have said something, damn it. I have other shit I can be doing if I’m only here to chase your fucking tail. I’ve been looking for over two hours.”
“What’s the matter?” Remi asked her what she meant. “You’ve been snapping and biting since you got here. I can only imagine what you said to any of the employees. This isn’t like you. What’s up?”
Remi opened her mouth but closed it immediately before letting out a long breath. Remi, short for Remington, sat down on the floor. When she shifted to her other self, a vulture, Jude cocked a brow at her. Something really was off if she’d rather be a bird than to speak her mind. As soon as she changed back, Jude joined her on the floor.
“Three nights ago, I was flying over New Town. I was seeing how far my new home was going to be from the castle. It’s not far, but I saw you out in the yard talking to Tracy. Who I love, by the way.” Jude said that Tracy loved her as well. “I’m super jealous.”
“Because I have a back yard I can speak to someone in? I’m sure you can have a back yard as well.” Remi growled. “Doesn’t work on me. Not that it ever did, but tell me or go away. I don’t have time for your bullshit, nor you having a childish temper tantrum.”
“I want a child of my own. I don’t want a mate. I don’t have time to clean up after them. But I want a kid I can take out to lunch when I want to go. Someone to go shopping with. Stuff like you do with Tracy.” Jude asked her what she was talking about. “A kid I can have fun with.”
“Okay, first of all, you do know you could call up Tracy, and she’d go to the ends of the earth with you.” Remi said it wasn’t the same thing. “I guess not. But have you seen the work that Mercy is doing for her new baby? A lot more than I think you want to invest in a kid to have lunch with. Besides, I think it’ll be an exceptionally long time before the kid can eat food, much less read a menu to order
