Chapter 46

“Friends of ours,” Charles said. “Two couples, actually.”

“Great,” Mike said.

We left Robbie with Mrs. Barnett while our hosts showed us the rest of the house. We were particularly impressed with the master bedroom they’d installed over the sunroom, and the huge stall shower in the master bath was a turn-on.

“Wow,” I said. “I’ve never seen so many showerheads in one shower. When we build our master suite over the garage, I’m going to copy this.”

“Be my guest,” Charles said.

“Charles is a shower freak,” Philip said, “as if you couldn’t tell looking at this installation.”

They showed us Steve and Roger’s room and the neat little office that had been set up for the boys in what had been a small bedroom. Then we walked around the grounds a bit and wound up at a small greenhouse. “The boys are rooting cuttings here,” Philip said, “and when the cuttings are fully rooted, they transfer them to larger containers and take them out to a nursery where they’ve leased some space.”