I smiled into the phone but said, “Sniff, for the last time, don’t say f**k.”
After my conversation with Sniff, I knitted and pearled a line about the length of my house and took a bubble bath. I was about to head to bed with a book when a knock went at my door.
I looked out the window and saw Tex standing outside.
I opened the door and looked up at him. “What’re you doing here?” I asked.
“You got any plastic wrap?” he asked in return.
I stared at him.
Then I smiled. “Yeah.”
He smiled back. His smile was kinda scary but it worked.
I loaded Tex up with my plastic wrap stash and waved him on his merry way.
My phone rang about ten minutes after Tex left. It was Zip.
“You still breathin’?” he asked after I answered.
“Yes,” I replied unnecessarily.
“Good.”
Disconnect.
This was rude but it was also sweet and I felt the warm whoosh in my belly again.
After Zip’s call I went to bed.
I told Vance about my adventures in boring, everyone else having fun and me knitting the world’s longest micro-scarf and taking a bubble bath.
“How was your night?” I asked.
“I picked up Clarence and Jermaine.”
My body went still.
Wow.
That didn’t take long.
God, he was good.
“And?”
“Mace is workin’ with them.”
Yikes.
I didn’t figure that was good for Clarence and Jermaine. Mace had a reputation for f**king people up and good.
“What’s that mean?” I asked.
“I’m thinkin’ you don’t want to know.”
“I’m thinking I do.”