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 26

I t took me a second or two to get past seeing Rose, somebody who’d been a stranger yesterday and who was so familiar today in her flowered dress and frumpy apron, round and rosy from the heat from the oven. She looked warm, and then she smiled at me, and my alarm system evidently took a hike because today she didn’t look like trouble, she just looked good. Better than I remembered.

Yeah, enough of that. I sat down on the floor beside my dog to see what Poppy was doing. She was cleaning Maggs’ paw so gently that Maggs wasn’t even twitching. This was a dog who reacted to my nail clipping as if I were touching her with a red-hot poker. I looked at all the dried blood there, fresh blood underneath, and I felt guilty as hell.

“I know,” I said to Poppy. “I should have let her rest.”