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and L.A. was too expensive and she wasn’t staying here, then she would need to look at moving somewhere else. There had to be places with a less crazy cost of living.
    If only she had—
    A soft knock on her door brought her to her feet. Carly crossed the floor and pulled open the door. Tiffany stood in front of her. The teen wore teddy bear pajamas and carried a tattered stuffed dog in her arms.
    â€œWhat’s up?” Carly asked.
    â€œNothing.” Tiffany shrugged as she stepped inside. “My room is great. It’s just…” She shrugged. “You know.”
    â€œIt’s a little creepy up there?”
    Tiffany dropped her chin. “Maybe a little. I’ll be completely fine,” she added quickly. “I love my room. I just thought, you know, for the first night.”
    Carly glanced at the large bed, then closed the door. “Sure, you can sleep with me.”
    â€œGood.”
    Tiffany ran and jumped on the bed. “I took the back stairs. It’s really weird because the house is so quiet, but there are all these noises.”
    â€œOld places are known for that.”
    â€œIt made me think of the ghost. Not that she’s real.”
    Carly stretched out in the bed. Tiffany set her dog on the nightstand, then shimmied under the blankets. She snuggled close and rested her head on Carly’s shoulder.
    â€œGrandma was pretty cool tonight,” the teenager said. “We watched HBO together.”
    â€œNothing R-rated, right?”
    â€œOh, Mo-om. You’re so old.”
    â€œGrandma’s older than me.”
    â€œYeah, but she’s more fun.”
    Carly tried not to take the comment personally. As her daughter’s mother, it was her job to be a parent, not a buddy. But just once she would like someone else to be the bad guy for a while. Neil was never willing to take on that task. Of course, he’d never bothered all that much with his daughter, despite the fact that Tiffany adored him.
    She stretched up and turned off the light, then settled back on the bed. Tiffany sighed.
    â€œWhere do you think Daddy is?” she asked, almost as if she knew her mother had been thinking of Neil.
    â€œI don’t know. I thought he was going to stay in L.A. for a while. Until he bought his boat.”
    â€œDo you think he’s really going to sail to Hawaii?”
    â€œThat’s what he said.”
    â€œWow. It’s so far. And there aren’t any, like, places to stop.”
    â€œI’m sure he’ll take a good map.”
    Carly did her best to keep the bitterness out of her voice. Neil got to buy a boat and run off to Hawaii while she was left behind to be the grown-up. Again.
    â€œDo you think…” Tiffany hesitated, then swallowed. “Do you think he misses me?”
    â€œOf course he does. You’re his best girl.”
    â€œI guess. It’s just he never wanted to, you know, spend time with me, and he hasn’t called since he left.”
    â€œHe’ll call,” Carly said, then vowed she would find Neil and force him to call his daughter. Damn the man for being such an insensitive bastard, she thought grimly. How could he do this to Tiffany? She could try to forgive a lot of things, but never that.
    She wrapped her arms around Tiffany and squeezed. “He’s going through a lot right now. But he’ll settle into his new life and you can be a part of it. That will be fun.”
    â€œYeah. We can go sailing together.”
    â€œGood idea.”
    Tiffany sighed. “It’s nice here. I kinda didn’t want to come because I thought it would be way stupid, but I like the house. You’re not going to make me clean rooms, are you?”
    â€œWe’ll negotiate a chore list,” Carly said. “The maids make pretty good money.”
    â€œHow good?”
    â€œLet’s talk in the morning.”
    â€œOkay. Night.”
    â€œNight, baby. I love