Riley sighed and swung the hutch open to reveal the secret staircase. Lily, Fred, and Mr. Willicott were playing cards on the stairs using potato chips for money. Gabe was eating the rest of the chips that hadn’t become currency. Billy the prodigy lawyer had loosened his dinosaur tie and was drinking a Dr Pepper with shaking hands. Mrs. Penny took a slurp of the bourbon in her glass. “I was here the whole time,” she announced.
