"Sandy left. It was just Sarah and I and a room full of boxes, paper,and ribbons and bows. We picked things up and folded or hung theclothes in the ...resser or closet."I never thought anything like this would happen when you knocked andcame into my room last Saturday." Neither did I." You are beginning to have quite a wardrobe. Tonight, why don't youshower first and change into your PJs."With that Sarah handed me my baby doll set. "Your baby doll set willlook so much better than those. Eden had probably been resting in his villa in Switzerland or maybe on his yacht in the Caribbean when the eviction orders were issued and houses demolished. No one had troubled to inform him about the protests, sit-ins and angry protests that accompanied the clear-out of the squatters and scum who'd previously been dossing in what was now his land. Their eviction would surely be no loss to either the estate that Eden St John-Easton had inherited or the town of Ashton Lovelock of which it had. I need something to take my mind off this. I feel like I’m going crazy, Ty. This is ridiculous … I’ll see you tonight and I’m sorry I called you with this shit. Love ya toots’ Lacey flipped her cell phone closed and just looked at it before tossing it into her purse with a sigh. She hated this feeling. She felt like she was going to be sick, literally sick. Moving to her final bag, she put the last of her personal items in it, her eyebrows furrowing as she saw a piece of paper stuck in between. The remote was stilllying on the floor where it had dropped earlier. Stan rolled over andused both his fists to get the remote onto the couch. The living roomwas arranged so that the television was positioned near the end of thecouch so that Stan had to look down over his body to see the screen.This was normally not an issue but today there was a silver mound risingfrom his chest high enough to nearly obscure the television. Lucky forStan they were only a constant reminder of his current.