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Episode 554: Elevation

"What is that supposed to mean?" Bowie asked. His lips hovered mere inches from Lila’s, yet too distracted to kiss her. Too troubled. "Ava didn’t rob me of anything. Why would you say that?" He’d thought Lila was mostly past her irrational jealousy of Avalon. He’d thought they were in a good grown up place where the sun shone all the time and his taking her on a picnic wasn’t something she considered beneath her.

Hell. They weren’t back there again, were they?

"You don’t need to get all defensive on her behalf, and punish me by withholding kisses." Lila shifted from his lap to a seat on her own. "I didn’t say anything wrong. I was stating a fact. Offering to baby-sit is the very least Ava could do for us since she did steal our livelihood."

"Our livelihood is just fine." But Bowie’s frown deepened. Their livelihood clearly wasn’t fine by Lila. This all struck him as eerily similar to the bad old days, where nothing he could give her had been enough. The grass always greener. "I’m employed, Lila, and we’re finally debt free. We broke even on Ava buying the bookstore, while she has a bank loan to pay back, that’s nothing to envy."

"Isn’t it? She has a business. Something with growth potential. We should get a loan like Bas and Ava did. Start something huge. Bigger than a bookstore will ever be, I mean, really that’s going the way of the dinosaurs anyway. You’re right, we shouldn’t envy them, we should become the people they envy." Lila finished with a broad smile at him. It fast slipped away. "Don’t look at me like that, Bo."

"I can’t help it." He was happy with things. He was providing for his family. He would not explore his options if those temporary job couldn’t provide for them. "This is so much like the way you used to make me feel, Lila. Like I’m not enough."

"No!" Panic flashed in her eyes and she leapt back onto his lap, taking his face in her hands. "No. No. No. That’s not what I’m saying at all."

Episode 555: The House That Built Me

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