"Totally bonkers," I confirmed as I followed. "You bring out the best in me. You're not carrying me over the threshold?" "I'll save that for home, if you don't mind." He inserted the key—no modern update such as a pass card here—and turned the lock. It squeaked. "Home in Quitman. Holy. Shit." The...
Micah curled around our feet, displeased with the delay. “Well, excuse me to hell and back,” I said. “Hard to keep movin’ when you’re passin’ out.” “Hssssssssssssss!” I stood up and waved my hand in an “over to you” gesture. ...
Cabot came and went. “Nothing I can do that you can’t, Sadie,” he’d said. He looked at Sadie with some sympathy. Everett’s contemporaries were pretty sure Sadie wasn’t just the Devlins’ housekeeper but such an arrangement wasn’t unusual. And everyone conceded Everett handl...