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door. "And thank you for this."
    " You're welcome," Kate said
    She caught herself holding her breath until the front door closed and assumed Meg was doing the same since her partner had remained absolutely silent.
    Meg motioned with her hand, and they slipped to the window to watch his silver Mercedes pull out of the drive.
    " What do you think about that?" Kate asked.
    Her friend had already pulled out her smart phone. "What I think is…" Meg put the phone to her ear. "This is the perfect reason why it's good I'm married to a newspaper journalist. Excuse me while I see what kind of dirt I can dig up on Ms. Erin Parker of Vermont Views Realty."

CHAPTER THREE
     
    Moving 101—Sweating the Small Stuff
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    "Erin and Collier were an item while he and Lila were in the 'separation' stage," Meg said, as she disconnected from her call with her husband. "Gil knew some of it already—then he grabbed the sports guy, Buzz, who is a bigger gossip than the gossip columnist." She rolled her eyes. "I mean the social columnist."
    Kate nodded. Her own husband, Keith, was a former pro hockey goalie, now sports radio personality at KHAZ, and he had mentioned many times how guys knew more scuttlebutt than most women did and freely discussed it with anyone. "Well, obviously the similarities in appearance between Lila and Erin tells us Blaine Collier has a type he's attracted to or that he might have dated Erin because she reminded him of his wife. But why the protective order?"
    " Erin may resemble Lila, but according to Gil, her temperament can streak into the crazy zone, and she went off the deep end." Meg put her phone on the counter. "Didn't quite go Fatal Attraction on him, but nearly. Sliced up a jacket he'd left in her car and torched the pieces on the barbeque grill out there." She pointed out the window. "Keyed his car with a few not so nice names when he told her they needed to stop seeing each other. But the clincher is when she tried to get Sydney thrown out of the special training camp this summer. Her daughter Nikki was next up, and the Parker duo thought the older daughter would go to California with her family and give up the summer program."
    Meg stopped talking and held up a hand. "Wait, let me back up a bit and start again. Apparently, Erin tried to convince Blaine to take Sydney out of the program before she knew about the move, but he wouldn't go for it. Then when he got the California job she tried to get Sydney thrown off the team when they found out she wasn't moving, too."
    " What difference would it have made anyway? The program is national. She probably signed up for the Boston location because it was closer."
    " Nope." Meg shook her head. "It has the best coach. And Sydney Collier is one of the top picks."
    " Anything Erin did that was truly dangerous? Or just creepy and over the top?" Kate felt a headache starting and grabbed her purse to look for aspirin.
    " Creepy and over the top, I think." Meg pulled out a bottle of water they'd stocked in the refrigerator. "But that wasn't all. She and Lila tangled over a development property the environmental group was holding up the progress on, and Erin wanted to make her share of the millions. It wasn't Erin's development, but it was her agency's, so she had a good shot at sales. Lila found all her tires flat the next morning, but she couldn't prove anything. Still, Blaine Collier has stroke in the