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began to clear the dishes.
    Her lusty body brushed him when she lifted his plate. Accidentally or on purpose, he wasn’t sure. But he’d be willing to pay her to do it again. He downed half a beer to cool his engine. “We were so lame, believing the story about his wife.”
    “I don’t know,” Kayla said. She craned her neck and looked at him. “You saw the dungeon.”
    Spooky tales–every neighborhood had them. Theirs had had a few. “Yeah, but think about it. His wife cheated on him. He took her to that dark room in the basement, strung her up with chains then tortured and killed her. Meanwhile, his father lived in the same house, nobody heard a thing, and the cops never investigated the crime.”
    “Why did he freak out every time someone went into his yard?”
    He could see Crazy Charlie’s creepy face, the matted hair, pitted skin, brown teeth. Behind his sunken, lifeless eyes something just hadn't been right.   “He was a nut job.”
    “No, it was because he buried her there and didn’t want anyone to see the grave.”
    He laughed. “I wonder who made that shit up. It really had the neighborhood going.”
    “Don’t act like you weren’t scared. I saw you run from him a few times.”
    “Woman, please. We messed with him on purpose, made him chase us for kicks.”
    “Sometimes when I walked by his house, he’d be sitting on the porch having a whole conversation with himself. He’d call out my name, wave and show me those nasty rotten teeth.”
    “Crazy Charlie had a crush on you.”
    “He tried to be nice. But one day, some of the boys decided to sneak into his rose garden. Oh my God, huge mistake. He totally flipped out and came after us. We took off running, and he almost bashed a bottle over my head. Had it not been for my sister, it would’ve nailed me.”
    “I never knew that.” Good thing too. Nico would’ve taken a bat to Charlie’s head. He’d be the first to admit he’d had a short fuse. His teen years had been full of angst. He’d begun to question things, wonder why his father had abandoned him as a baby. The rejection had stung, and he’d lashed out.
    Uncle Benjamin had tried to fill the void, probably feeling guilty because his little brother had split. Dylan and Christian never realized how lucky they were. Thank God, their dad had taken Nico under his wing. He’d even taught him the family trade, showing Nico how to work with his hands. Had it not been for his uncle… Nico didn’t want to think about the alternative. The only good that had come from his father had been the LaCosta family.
    To this day, he’d never met his father. And he no longer gave a crap. Why would he go looking for someone who didn’t want him? No one knew where to find him anyway. Even if they did, it wouldn’t change anything. One thing for sure, he would never abandon a child. Nico vowed to be everything his father wasn’t.
    “Yeah,” Kayla said, interrupting his thoughts. “I fell down, but Sofia grabbed my shirt and yanked me up. The bottle crashed right here,” she said, pointing near her lower leg. “Glass splattered over my sneakers. That’s how close it came.”
    “Did Jesse know?”
    “Please. He would’ve killed him.” Kayla set the dishes in the sink. “We kept it a secret.”
    “Leave that. I’ll do those later,” he said. She didn’t have to clean up too.
    “No biggie. Just kick back and relax. It’ll take two seconds.”
    She’d already started rinsing the dishes. Nico sat there and studied the back of her, more specifically, her sweet ass. “Hey, thanks again for the awesome omelet.”
    “You’re welcome,” she said over her shoulder.
    “We had some shifty characters in our neighborhood, huh?” he said, examining her body. She had a perfect posterior. He also adored her beautiful long hair.
    “Remember the lady who cursed at everybody?”
    He had to think back for a moment. “You mean the loca with those bug eyes that went every which way?”
    Kayla shut