Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m

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 35

I spent the rest of the time until Barry’s meeting trying to get Ozzie’s apartment cleaned up. It was fun having Maggs silently follow me around, interested in everything I was doing. She really was a sweet baby. For a wolf dog. “You have a lot in common with your master,” I told her and scratched her behind the ears, avoiding the cone.

I think subconsciously I was hoping Max would stay longer if the place was a little more . . . comfortable. Okay, I was thinking that consciously. Not just because I was having more hot thoughts about him, but because he was somebody that could take on Serena, Junior, Norman, hidden film, and probably zombies.

And now, just looking around the big, cluttered central room, there were a million places Ozzie might have hidden that film if he’d kept it. And people with guns wanted it.