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 20

“ O kay, what’s wrong?” Darius said when we were out on the double-lane highway on the way to school in Bearton.

I have no secrets from Darius. I mean, sometimes he’s a little bossy, and he likes to make decisions for both of us, but I can handle that and he gives good advice, so I unloaded. “Max is leaving again, heading out to the A.T., and Maggs is hurt. And my mother didn’t come down to breakfast which is not like her, she always gets up to make sure Ozzie and I are fed. Maybe she didn’t get up because of Max. Maybe she thought it would hurt too much?—”

“Maybe she just wanted to sleep in for the first time in years,” Darius said, keeping his eyes on the road because his dad would kill him if he got distracted and caused an accident. His dad is very protective of the public. And Darius. And me. “Your mom always seems pretty chipper to me.”