Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m
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Think of the movie RED. Retired covert operatives living in a small town in the Smoky Mountains. What could go wrong? From the bestselling authors of Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series. Rose Malone’s landlord and employer, Ozzie Oswald, just died, and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her ...

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CHAPTER 18

M ax and I parted ways upstairs on the blue line. He went into Ozzie’s apartment, Maggs moving ahead of him, tail wagging happily. I waited, but he went in and shut his door, so I shut mine, too, and went back down to the kitchen before I could lose my grip and knock on his door and ask him if he might be interested in me naked so I could ask him about Mei. And have sex.

But he was leaving in the morning, so he probably wasn’t here for Mei. Plus, he’d had a chance to say something, anything, to show his interest, and he hadn’t. Just that he was leaving in the morning after saying goodbye to Poppy. He hadn’t even added me into the breakfast equation.

I sat and looked at my self-portrait bottle with a naked head and some poppies as a border at the bottom. That was just sad. I thought what else I could add to it that was me and realized that I’d gotten to half a century defining myself by my service to other people, reacting to other people’s needs, Cheery Boost all the way. Things happened and I fixed them, and then I waited until the next thing happened. I didn’t start anything, I didn’t make things happen, I just filled in the spaces other people made .