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the issue of my family. I couldn’t stay at Henry’s house forever. He hadn’t bugged me recently about revealing myself to anyone, but I knew it had to be in the back of his mind. He had been a real sport about the whole thing, but he must want his room to himself, to not have me lurking around all the time.
    My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a male voice. My body went rigid and I struggled to hear. Definitely talking.
    I thought nobody was here? Is it possible I didn’t hear his parents get home?
    I strained to listen. It sounded like Mr. Matthews was standing on the stairway leading up to the attic. There was a door in the second story hallway that you had to go through to get to the attic steps. Did David come into the stairway for privacy?
    His voice was getting louder. Please don’t come into Henry’s room , I prayed silently.
    “I told you not to call me at the weekend,” he was saying. He sounded agitated. “If Valerie ever finds out about this, she’ll leave me. I don’t have a pre-nup. I can’t afford that.”
    This was awful! Why would he say something like that if he wasn’t having an affair? And how can I ever tell Henry about this? He’ll never believe me. His parents have always seemed so solid. Maybe not head-over-heels in love, but happy, complacent .
    “I can meet tomorrow,” Mr. Matthews said. He laughed. “I’ll figure out something.” He paused. “No, we met there last time. I don’t want anyone getting suspicious. How about The Hilton in midtown at noon?”
    David hung up the phone and walked back down the stairs, humming to himself.
    Holy shit! I have to follow him tomorrow.
    My first instinct was to call Lucas, my original partner in crime for investigating Henry’s father. But that wasn’t going to work. He had made it clear that he wanted nothing to do with investigating Henry’s father. And besides, who knew if he was still mad at me? I could never tell with him.
    Like it or not, I was going to be all alone for this one. I briefly considered not following David, but I owed it to Henry to find out the truth, after all he had done for me. I just hope if I confirm the worst tomorrow Henry won’t shoot the messenger when I tell him.
    That cinched it. I’d just have to take the bus. It’s how I’d gotten around when I’d been alive and none of my friends had their licenses yet.
    I was still trying to figure out how I would make sure Henry was out of the house in order to follow Mr. Matthews without any suspicion when Henry got back from his basketball game.
    He seemed surprised to see me still camped out on his bed when he got back up to his room.
    “Have you just been sitting there all day?” he asked me.
    “Yeah, what else is there to do?” I muttered.
    “I guess it doesn’t help that my parents got back so early. I thought they were going to visit friends. Sorry about that.”
    “It doesn’t matter,” I said. “I’d probably ha ve done the same thing as I’m doing right now, even if I’d had the house to myself.”
    “How was the basketball game?” I asked, changing the subject. Up until now I’d been lying with my back away from Henry. I turned to face him. “Damn, you’re sweaty!” I exclaimed.
    Henry looked like he’d just had a grueling workout. Sweat was dripping down his red face and his clothes were drenched.
    “It was harder than usual,” Henry admitted. “My arms are really sore after all that shoveling I did last night. Probably should have taken the day off. I hadn’t mentioned it to you with everything that’s been going on, but I’m training for the basketball team at school next year.”
    “Really?” I asked in surprise. I hadn’t ever thought of Henry as the athletic type.
    “Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence. You sound utterly shocked.”
    “I’m sorry,” I said. And I meant it. “I just never knew you to be interested in sports before,” I explained.
    “There’s a lot that you don’t know about me