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 27

I listened to Max and Poppy talking while I cut the potatoes in half, scooped out their insides, and was lavish with the sour cream and butter I mixed into them before I stuffed them back into their shells. Then I got the good cheddar I’d bought and grated it over the halves—eight of them because twice-baked potatoes were great as leftovers—glad I’d made enough for the next two days because that meant there was more than enough for Max to stay tonight.

I heard him say that Maggs had been catching game for him—mice? Really?—and thought, No wonder he’s so thin. He was like William, so skinny when Poppy had brought him home, and now the Maine Coon was the Beast on the Upper Shelf, glaring down at all of us. We could do the same for Max, put some meat on those bones, some weight?—

I caught myself thinking about Max’s weight on top of me—that’s a dumb fantasy, I probably couldn’t breathe if he were on top of me, he was thin but broad—and looked down to see that I’d overdone the grated cheese. Although really, there is no such thing as too much cheese so it was fine.