Chapter 6

Carol nodded. “Are you both going to live here?”

Spence chuckled. “You’re fishing for information? We are. We’re friends as well as writing partners.”

“Just friends?” she asked, waggling her eyebrows.

“Carol!” Spence turned to Jeff, telling him, “She was always the neighborhood gossip.”

“I was not,” Carol protested. “I’m interested in people. So?”

“Friends with benefits, as they say,” Jeff told her. “Nothing more.”

“Yet,” she replied with a grin. “Okay, I’d better get home so you can finish your dinner. If you need any help getting things set up, holler. I’ll be in town all summer.”

“We will.” Spence leaned over to give her a hug. “I’m glad you’re still my neighbor.”

“One of the few left, I’m afraid. Maybe, once you’re settled in, I’ll take you around so you can meet the ones you don’t know.”

“Thanks. We’ll take you up on that, I’m sure.”

Spence watched her as she walked back to her house. “She was one of Mom’s best friends,” he told Jeff.